Author:  Karen Hoover Love bears all things . . . hopes all things, 1 Corinthians 13:7 On Good Friday at 4:30 in the afternoon we entered the sanctuary, having made a COVID timed-entry appointment to see the Butterfly Memorial...

Author: Nicole Speer I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. ~John 13:34 A couple of months ago I was having tea with a friend when I saw a man walking down...

Author: Linda Kowatch Today we find ourselves in the midst of Holy Week. Just two days ago we celebrated Palm Sunday as Jesus entered Jerusalem under the triumphal cheers of “Hosanna!” Most of us know some of the other significant...

Author: Libby Black   At the annual meeting in March the question was asked: What percent of our pledges goes toward Mission and Social Action? My answer is, absolutely, 100%.    Church is a place where we learn to...

Author: Pedro S. Silva II He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’  This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall...

Author: Carolyn Gard   I had a sweatshirt with a similar picture on it. I enjoyed wearing it, and got a lot of smiles. Except for once. A man came up to me and told me it was heresy and that I was going to Hell. I simply walked...

Author: Nicole Speer But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. ~Luke 23:28 The weight of our collective cross feels particularly heavy this Lenten...

Author: Nancy Wade I will perpetuate your memory through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever. Psalm 45:17   Family stories I heard as a child have stayed with me. My Dad’s family in...

Author: Mark Pickett God has shown you what is good. What does God require of you? To act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 Margot and I moved to Colorado from North Carolina nearly two years ago....

Author: Amy Ostwald Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to...