May 26, 2016 | Pastor's Blog
At RRCB, we follow the Revised Common Lectionary. This liturgical guide provides us with readings Sunday that fit with the liturgical year, with its various seasons that correspond to celebration, mourning, and growth. There are a great many reasons to appreciate the...
May 19, 2016 | Pastor's Blog |
Many thoughts and feelings envelop me nowadays – sadness, anxiety, excitement. Good news: our house sold in one day – no lie. They also waived the inspection. Okay, that feels good. Our next destination on the journey will be South Carolina. All the grandparents are...
May 12, 2016 | Pastor's Blog
One of the challenges of personal development as a believer is the journey we take into spiritual maturity and transformative servanthood. The call of discipleship is a call to “bury” narcissistic habits and embrace the biblical model of an “other focused” way of...
May 5, 2016 | Pastor's Blog
A number of RRCB folks have asked for hard copies of the sermon entitled “Time Will Tell” which I preached on Founder’s Day, the church’s 70th anniversary. I suspect the keenest interest was in one of two areas. The first was what former pastor Dr. Vernon Richardson...
Apr 28, 2016 | Pastor's Blog
News, politicians, leaders, culture – we are surrounded by a cry of: “BE AFRAID! [Fill in offender – Muslims, immigrants, politicians of the “other party”] are coming to steal your liberty and destroy your way of life!” Certainly, there are dangerous politicians and...
Apr 21, 2016 | Pastor's Blog
Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics alongside quantum mechanics. He...