News
A “Onesie” Sunday School Lesson on Bad Things Happening to Good People
Early Saturday morning, a tree fell in our pastor's yard, only a few feet away from … [Read More...]
Church to meet in the multipurpose building on December 2
Because of wind damage, Church will meet in the multipurpose building on Dec 2. The older … [Read More...]
Thanksgiving Eve Service
Our Thanksgiving Eve service will be at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, November 21. Included will … [Read More...]
Sermons
Psalm 103: Thanksgiving
My soul, bless the Lord; all my inmost being, praise His holy name. Praise the Lord and … [More...]
All Saints: Tobit 3:7-8, 7:10-12; Revelation 7:9-17; Matthew 22:23-29: Who’s Doing the Counting?
All the counting in Scripture. On its first page, the words, “In the beginning” ring out, … [More...]
Isaiah 66:1-2: Reformation, God Working Through Our Human Failures
A monk at Wittenberg, nails a document on a church door. Written in Latin, he desires to … [More...]
Articles
The Theology of Suffering (Bad Things Happening to Good People)
This is the Sunday School Lesson for Dec 2, 2018, changed because of events in the life of our congregation. The only difference from this and the lesson used is this one lacks the graphics. The Theology of Glory versus the Theology of the Cross Before we look into suffering, we need to look into two different approaches, or lenses, through which we understand events in our lives: … [More...]
Making Sense of God when Our World Doesn’t
This is our pastor's newsletter for November 2018. In our grief, we sigh, “Why, Lord?” Such words formed in my mouth when Dean Webb died, with Sandy, his wife, a short time later. Today, as I write this article, I still am grappling with losing them both. Though I am a pastor, God sends down no privileged doorway into His private deliberations. So, I can’t answer this question of … [More...]
A Lesson on Grieving
With two deaths within a week, a lesson like this made sense. For when someone you know and love dies, you suffer an enormous sense of loss. It is like an amputation. Initially, there's a sharp pain. Eventually, there's healing—but there's always a loss. Grief is the expression of this loss, which someone can express in several ways. Many people, when faced with a sudden death of one they … [More...]
John: Lesson 9: The Food of God’s Kingdom (John 6:25 – 71)
Jesus is back in Galilee with another Passover soon approaching. He crossed over the Sea of Galilee and a crowd follows Him there. Hungry, Jesus took five loaves and seven fish and multiplied them to feed a crowd of 5,000 men, plus women and children. Both Jesus and His disciples leave and the crowd follows him the next day. The crowd catches up with them, and they dialogue with several … [More...]
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