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Choose Peace, Love, Joy, and Hope this Advent Season

December 8, 2019 by ReverendAmanda

Life can be so difficult. Humanity in general is not always compassionate, caring, generous, or just plain kind. In a world where people call each other names, bully one another online, and where there seems to be so much violence and war, it can be hard to feel hopeful. Yet this is what the season … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons Tagged: actions, Advent, Care, Change, Christ, Christmas, compassion, Faith, God, Hope, inspiration, Isaiah, Jesus, Love, Matthew, New Testament, Old Testament, Peace, Promise

Welcoming and Inviting Communication

November 24, 2019 by ReverendAmanda

We communicate a whole lot before we even open our mouths to speak. If we are aware and invested in the relationships around us sometimes words are not even needed to communicate needs. Children do this all the time as they are developing their communication skills. I myself have had to rely on these other … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons Tagged: 1 Corinthians, actions, Belonging, Care, Christ, communication, Community, compassion, Faith, fellowship, Genesis, God, Healing, New Testament, Old Testament

Purposeful Listening: the Key to Inviting the Presence of God into the Conversation

November 17, 2019 by ReverendAmanda

When I worked as a preschool teacher, we were all required to do a certain amount of hours of continuing education every single year. One of the trainings we often had, focused on teaching us the importance and practice of good listening. Then we would split into groups and practice the art of listening. Most … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons Tagged: 1 Corithians, Active Listening, Care, Change, Christ, communication, Community, Faith, God, inspiration, New Testament, Old Testament, Psalms, unity, Wholeness

Striving for Peace: Using Communication to Better our World

November 10, 2019 by ReverendAmanda

I listened to a whole podcast on Monday all about the history of Veteran’s Day and its link to Armistice Day which preceded it. In the podcast, it spoke about the need to do more than to just honor our veterans once a year and how for many veterans they would much prefer that we … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons Tagged: actions, Care, Change, Christ, communication, Community, compassion, empathy, Faith, God, Hope, inspiration, Jesus, kindness, Love, New Testament, Old Testament, Peace, Psalms

A New Perspective: Can You Hear God Talking?

November 3, 2019 by ReverendAmanda

This week I was sitting at home one evening watching the Nationals play the Braves in game 6 of the World Series, and I was playing around with a Facebook quiz. The quiz said they could determine my generation based on my pet peeves and then proceeded to ask me a series of questions. One … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons Tagged: Acceptance, actions, Answered Prayers, Care, Change, Christ, Faith, Forgiveness, God, Hope, Luke, Old Testament, perspective, prayer

Come with Humility: Authenticity of Prayer and Life

October 27, 2019 by ReverendAmanda

Have you ever met someone who thinks very highly of themselves? I certainly have. When I was in seminary, I took at class on the book of Matthew. Part of this class required that we work in groups on certain passages and then present our findings in 3 weeks time. I no longer remember what … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons Tagged: actions, Care, compassion, Faith, God, Hope, identity, inspiration, Jesus, Love, Luke, New Testament, prayer, Wholeness, worship

Written Upon Your Heart

October 20, 2019 by ReverendAmanda

When my oldest nephew was born, Bill and I rushed over to the hospital to meet the tiny little addition to the family and to visit my brother and Jen, who were both obviously exhausted. As I held my sleeping nephew, my brother said to me that obviously I inherited all the faith in the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons Tagged: 2 Timothy, actions, Care, Christ, Faith, God, Hope, inspiration, Jeremiah, New Testament, Old Testament, Trust

Sharing God’s Grace by Loving God’s People

October 13, 2019 by ReverendAmanda

If you want to encounter God, the essence of what is Holy, you don’t have to go searching in the depths of spiritual places. You only have to look at other people. We are constantly told in the scriptures that God is in the people that we meet, the people that we help, and the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons Tagged: actions, Belonging, Care, Children, Christ, Community, compassion, empathy, Event, Faith, God, inspiration, Jesus, Love, Luke, New Testament, Special Service, Trust, Volunteerism

Christian Spiritual Practices: Service

October 6, 2019 by ReverendAmanda

Have you ever noticed that when you help someone it just completely changes your day? Right before I left the preschool my teacher’s assistant at the time was someone who didn’t drive and the city bus stop was a mile away. I decided that I would give her a ride to her house at the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons Tagged: actions, Care, Christ, Community, compassion, empathy, Faith, God, inspiration, Jesus, Love, Luke, New Testament, Old Testament, Promise, Strength, Volunteerism, Wholeness

Christian Spiritual Practices: Community and Care

September 29, 2019 by ReverendAmanda

Living in community and caring for one another is another of the Christian Spiritual practices that often gets overlooked and underestimated. Community was important right from the beginning of Christianity. We know this because where Christ said, “Wherever one or two of you are gathered there I will be as well”. A Christian community is … [Read more…]

Posted in: Sermons Tagged: Acceptance, Belonging, Care, Community, compassion, fellowship, Forgiveness, Genesis, God, Jesus, Love, Luke, New Testament, Old Testament, Wholeness
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  • Choose Peace, Love, Joy, and Hope this Advent Season December 8, 2019
  • Greening of the Church November 27, 2019
  • Annual Christmas Carol Sing-a-long with Joel Barlow Accapella Group November 27, 2019
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