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Friday Greetings - July 23

Some of you have heard me say that the most common definition of the Church is “the voluntary assembly of like-minded individuals,” the...

Friday Greetings - July 16

“For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between...

Friday Greetings - July 9

Saint is not a term we frequently think of in terms of the church community, and to be honest, not one that we frequently deserve. Yet,...

Friday Greetings - July 2

Thomas Wolfe famously observed “you can never go home, again.” There is something about the place of our childhood that makes it...

Friday Greetings - June 25

Touch can be a powerful force for good in our lives. Even more than that though are the spiritual ways that we touch and connect with...

Friday Greetings - June 18

I think I have always been something of a weather nerd. It seems to me that one of my first Father’s Day gifts was a thermometer to put...

Friday Greetings - June 11

In preparing for this week’s worship, I came across a Mexican proverb: “they tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” The...

Friday Greetings - May 28

As a kid, follow the leader and Simon says were games that taught us to listen, look, and follow. As adults, we are not so good and...

Friday Greetings - May 21

My father loved a phrase from the musical South Pacific: “if you don’t have a dream, how can you have a dream come true.” My father...

Friday Greetings - May 14

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATING SENIORS OF 2021 This Sunday, we will hear a little of their faith journey and where God is leading them...

Friday Greetings - May 7

Last week, Pastor Tom concluded our journey through a series on being Easter People throughout our life. As we read more and grow on this...

Friday Greetings - April 30

The Daily Encouragement emails filled an important role for the last 13 months, and for some their absence since Easter Sunday has been...

Friday Greetings - April 16

As a child, I learned a song that says “Every morning is Easter morning from now on! Every day's resurrection day.” Over these weeks of...

Friday Greetings - April 9

Happy Easter! Nope...your calendar isn't wrong and I'm not mistaken...it is Easter friends, and We are Easter People. Easter isn't just a...

Daily Encouragement - April 3

Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come to me: listen, so that you may live. When God wants to let us know that his presence surrounds us...

Friday Greetings - April 2

The old hymn urges us “your Redeemer’s conflict see, watch with him one bitter hour. Turn not from his griefs away; learn of Jesus Christ...

Daily Encouragement - April 2

On Faithfulness Of what value, would the promises of God be without His Faithfulness and of what value would we be to God, to our...

Daily Encouragement - April 1

For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope....

Daily Encouragement - March 31

John 13: 31-35 When Judas was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Human One has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been...

Daily Encouragement - March 30

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, while the sun’s light failed; and the curtain...