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Friday Greetings - December 10

We sing, “Joy to the World, the Lord is come. Let earth receive her king.” At some level the only joy our world can ever know comes when...

Friday Greetings - December 3

On the cabinet in our kitchen are gold-painted letters spelling “Peace.” They are part of the Christmas decorations, and somehow the...

Friday Greetings - November 26

The word Advent comes to us from Latin and the word ‘advents’ meaning, ‘coming.’ It is a time for us to reflect on the coming of Jesus...

Friday Greetings - November 19

Throughout the Bible and history, we hear and read Jesus called by a variety of names and titles. On this Sunday each year, the Sunday...

Friday Greetings - November 12

In our Book of Discipline, the Charge Conference is described as “the basic unit in the Connectional system.” It is the means by which we...

Friday Greetings - November 5

The story of the widows mite. You know it. A woman gives her last two coins to the treasury of the synagogue. She is faithful and...

Friday Greetings - October 29

The plans are underway for the refurbishment of our sanctuary and updates to our kitchen. The playground is already being installed. We...

Friday Greetings - October 22

Shakespeare famously wrote “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Names are a significant part of our sense of identity and...

Friday Greetings - October 15

Understanding our place in the universe and the general order of things is in many ways the essence of worship. It is a moment to declare...

Friday Greetings - October 8

“People basically do what they want to do.” I can hear my mother’s voice even as I type those words. She’s right, you know. As a basic...

Friday Greetings - October 1

My mother frequently opines, “if I had known grandchildren were this much fun, I’d have had them first.” Now that we have a grandchild,...

Friday Greetings - September 24

On the shelves in my office there is book with the odd title of Does God Need the Church? An interesting question. Spoiler alert, the...

Friday Greetings - September 17

Competition comes early in our lives and fills a big part of our experience, and maybe it has always been so. Then suddenly we come upon...

Friday Greetings - September 10

Who are you? No, really – who are you? We can answer that question in all kinds of ways. Identity has always fascinated us. Who we think...

Friday Greetings - September 3

Watching the evening news can be exhausting these days. Quite a number of friends have decided to withdraw from news and social media,...

Friday Greetings - August 27

I’m not actually a fan of musical theater, though I have seen quite a bit of it. I remember well watching the movie “Fiddler on the Roof”...

Friday Greetings - August 20

The summer is winding down, the kids are preparing to return to school, the activity of the church is starting to ramp up, and our...

Friday Greetings - August 13

What time is it? From the small clocks on our cell phones to some of the biggest clocks in the world, humans are obsessed with time. But...

Friday Greetings - August 6

This week we welcome to the pulpit, Zeb Hough, director of Religious Community Services. Zeb is a man of deep faith and has a passion for...

Friday Greetings - July 30

I saw a post some time ago that said, “I am officially resigning from adulthood. I will no longer be making any important decisions. I am...