The Church Grows in the New Year

Oct 11, 2012 | Pastor's Blog

The new Christian year will begin in seven weeks with the start of Advent. Like me, you might be wondering where the year has gone. Once again we will be asked to prepare for the marvelous event of God being made known to us through the birth of the Christ-child. It...

Advent 2011 Devotions Concluded

Jan 2, 2012 | Devotions

Our 2011 Advent devotional series is now complete. Thanks go out to Tom Graves who edited the devotions, to Cassandra Ducca & the Communications Team who produced the booklet and online posts, and great thanks especially to the many lay persons and ministers of...

Tracking Time Differently

Jan 1, 2012 | Devotions

2 Peter 3: 8-15 by Dan Stevens Our Scripture for today comes from 2 Peter, a letter written to warn second century Christians against accepting the leadership of some in the early church who professed to be Christians but were not following the teachings of Jesus. The...

Way In the Wilderness

Dec 31, 2011 | Devotions

Luke 3:1-6 by Carolyn Briggs In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, God’s word comes to John in the wilderness, far from the centers of Roman order and Jewish temple rites.  John is alone in the waterless wild, a landscape evocative of human...

Unexpected Fulfillment

Dec 30, 2011 | Devotions

Malachi 3:1-4 by Doug Anderson Advent celebrates the birth of the long-awaited Messiah, the one we know as Jesus. God fulfilled his promise, as foretold in Scripture, but the manner in which he did this was unexpected. The fulfillment did not fulfill the expectations...