When we think of change: whether it is in the world, our careers, or our personal lives, what comes to your minds? Change can be exciting but it can also be a time full of anxiety and dread for many. Change can be frightening because we can’t always predict what will come next or how … [Read more…]
Don’t forget to join us on March 29th at 7:30PM for our Tenebrae service. We will be walking through Christ’s last hours. This is a haunting and beautiful candle light service. It is the perfect way to end the Lenten journey and to prepare our hearts for the Easter morn. All people are invited to … [Read more…]
Don’t forget to join us on April 1st for Easter worship at 10AM followed by an Easter Egg Hunt for children at 11AM. It promises to be a morning of fun!
You ever stand in an excited crowd and just feel overwhelmed by the emotions of the mob? You might know me to be a Boston Red Sox fan but my husband is a diehard Yankee fan. Every year we make a pilgrimage to Yankee Stadium to see a game each summer. There is nothing quite … [Read more…]
Promise and hope is what the Lenten season is to lead us to with the Easter morning. We are promised paradise and we are given hope in the new life. What we experience here isn’t the only life that is offered to us. Through coming to understand the depth of the love Christ experienced for … [Read more…]
What are the first things that come to mind when you hear the word covenant? You probably were not thinking about lent, learning, or fun and interesting. Yet as we can see in the Bible covenant is very important and appears from the book of Genesis all the way through the book of Revelations. One … [Read more…]
Our experiences of the transformative power of the Holy are often few and far between. In the Bible, many of those transformative experiences happen at special places and often on mountain tops as with the transfiguration, Moses’ encounter with God that gave the law, and Noah’s landing with the arc on Mount Ararat, to name … [Read more…]
The wise men saw a star rising in the East that shown out through the darkness of night and to the place where Jesus was born. And like his star shining through the darkness, Jesus was also that light to a world in need starting right from his birth. Jesus was that shining star, that … [Read more…]
One of my favorite Christmas cartoons is Charlie Brown’s Christmas. It has been a family tradition since I was a little girl to watch it during the Advent Season. As an adult, I love how innocent and faithful Charlie Brown is when he chooses this raggedy half dead stick of a tree as their Christmas … [Read more…]
My great grandmother used to sing and play her piano for me when I was a child. She worked so hard to teach me Silent Night. And she would always say that when she was younger she could sing but she hadn’t used her voice in so long and no longer could sing well. But … [Read more…]
