Bounty: A Stewardship Series Week 2 This Sunday Peter Jurney took to the pulpit for a continuation of Bounty: A Stewardship Series. Peter’s sermon, “Got Grace?” focused on the readings Ephesians 2:8-9 and I Timothy 6:17-19. Please read the scriptures in preparation for Peter’s message.
Bounty: A Stewardship Series Week 1 Pastor Michelle kicked off her sermon series “Bounty: A Stewardship Series” with “Week 1: When You Come Upon a Giant(s)…” Be sure to read Numbers 13 and consider the questions below in preparation for the message. Questions for Reflection: What/who are the giants in your life (not the welcome kind). What makes them so?…
All Saints Sunday Enjoy our All Saints Day worship. We “call the roll” of those from our church family who have gone on before us, light a candle for each of them and toll a bell as we remember them. Read Ephesians 1: 11-12, 15-23 in preparation for Pastor Michelle’s sermon, Inheritance Day. Resource Referenced: Hometown Tales, Recollections of Kindness, Peace and Joy , by Philip Gulley, Harper…
Pastor Michelle McKinnon-Young continues her sermon series: Building Intimate, Enduring, and Healthy Relationships Across Life with Boundaries and Healthy Relationships. Read Luke 2: 39-52 (The Boy Jesus in the Temple), Ephesians 4: 1, 14-15 (Speaking the Truth in Love) and consider the questions below in preparation for worship. Questions for Reflection (for this sermon and beyond) How good are you with setting boundaries in your own life and relationships? …
Rev. Danna Drum continues the sermon series: Social Media, Intimacy, and Healthy Relationships: What it Takes to Build Deep and Enduring Relationships Across Life. Whether you are looking to deepen, repair, form, choose better, enhance relationships, there will be something in this series for ALL of us! What does it take to build intimate, healthy deep and enduring relationships across life? Each teaching will be…
Pastor Michelle begins a new sermon series: Social Media, Intimacy, and Healthy Relationships:What it Takes to Build Deep and Enduring Relationships Across Life. Whether you are looking to deepen, repair, form, choose better, enhance relationships, there will be something in this series for ALL of us! What does it take to build intimate, healthy deep and enduring relationships across life? Each teaching will be…
Pastor Michelle will finish her Transitions Sermon Series this Sunday with “It’s a (Scary) Wonderful New Life.” Read John 11: 1-6, 11-17 and 33-44 and consider the questions below in preparation for worship. Questions for Reflection According to William Bridges (Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes), the neutral zone is only meant to be temporary state. “It is, as they say, a…
The loss of a loved one is certainly one of the most life altering experiences each of us goes through. It puts us in a “neutral zone,” or place of uncertainty. Good ‘Death,’ Good Grief will touch on life, death and loss. You might like to read Acts 9: 10-19 and Psalm 107: 13-14 and consider the questions below in preparation for worship.…
Continuing her sermon series on Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes Pastor Michelle discusses the “inbetweenness” of transition and how it often takes an ending to make a new beginning. Read Acts 9: 1-19 (Paul’s Conversion on the Road to Damascus) and consider the questions below in preparation for the message. Questions for Reflection Disengagement. Dismantling. Disidentification. Disenchantment. Disorientation. These words connote aspects of…
They say, “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” How we deal with change makes all the difference! Pastor Michelle continues her Transitions Sermon Series: Make Sense of Life’s Changes here with her sermon When Something New Calls You… Read Luke 15: 11-24 and consider the questions below in preparation for the sermon. Questions for Reflection 1. From whence does your…
Transitions Sermon Series: Making Sense of Life’s Changes The Journey of a Thousand Miles In our lives we experience many changes, some more difficult or exciting than others. Join us as Pastor Michelle begins a new sermon series called Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes. Read Genesis 12: 1-9 and consider the questions below in preparation for Sunday’s sermon The Journey of a Thousand…
Look at the Sky in Thanksgiving Joyce Sluss, our Congregational Deacon, shares a message about prayer and being thankful. Read Luke 13: 10-17 and consider the questions below in preparation for Sunday’s sermon, Look At the Sky with Thanksgiving. Questions for Reflection Think of a time in your life when you felt alone and frightened… a time when you felt you had…
