Preacher: Dana Cassell Scripture: Luke 15:1-10 I have had the privilege of a front row seat over the last year as my home congregation has worked to sell their building and dissolve as a congregation. I can’t quit telling stories about First Church because I am so fascinated and amazed at the grace they’re enacting…
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Held in the Tapestry of God’s Peace
Preacher: Julia Baker Scripture: Philippians 4:1-8 When I was 28 a relationship that marked most of my 20’s, with the man I thought I would marry, came to a very ugly and sad end. The morning after I woke, after having sobbed myself to sleep, and the verses we read in Philippians were with me….
Interpreting the Present Time
Preacher: Dana Cassell Scripture: Luke 12:49-56 Since I left ministry, I have had an unquenchable thirst for DRAMA. When you’re a pastor, or at least when I was a pastor, people’s dramas – large and small – land in your lap day in and day out. I cannot resist the allure of a juicy storyline,…
God’s Reversal
Preacher: Lisa Ramish Scripture: Luke 12:32-40 Please pray with me. Loving God, we know you are here with us as we read your holy scripture and find ways to let it change our lives. May my words, as well as the way we hear them and respond, be a reflection of your wisdom and love….
The Lord’s Prayer
Preacher: Julia Baker Scripture: Luke 11:1-13 The Lord’s Prayer… At this moment, churches around the globe, in every language are praying this prayer. This beautiful prayer that I would guess has been spoken more than any collection of words in human history. A prayer that, for many of us, we didn’t even memorize consciously but…
Beyond “Are you a Martha or a Mary?”
Preacher: Lisa Ramish Scripture: Genesis 18:1-10a; Luke 10:38-42 Thank you so much for having me as your guest today. I am so grateful to be with you. Let us start with a prayer. Our Creator, Please bless my words and let them be a blessing to those listening. Guide our voices, thoughts and actions to…
And Who is My Neighbor?
Preacher: Rev. Nate Hosler Scripture: Deuteronomy 30:9-14, Colossians 1:1-14, Luke 10:25-37 In 2003, after a year and a half of volunteer service and feeling a call to ministry, I boarded a train to Chicago from Pennsylvania. I was headed to college and the school was in the center of the city. A ministry training program,…
A Spiritual Rubric for Living
Preacher: Dana Cassell Scripture: Galatians 5:1, 13-25 I had the chance to talk with my friend Mandy this week, who is the pastor at the Manassas Church of the Brethren right down the road. I’d heard a little about what’s going on at Manassas – actually, when I wrote on Substack a few weeks ago…
God, What Would You Have Us Know Today?
Preacher: Julia Baker Scripture: Luke 8:26-39 The author Elizabeth Gilbert has a practice where she writes letters from God to herself writing at the top of the page — “What would you have me know today”?” I have done this practice over the last years, finding it especially helpful when the press of the world…
Transdimensional Liminal Space
Preacher: Rev. Jenn Hosler Scripture: Acts 1:1-11; Ephesians 1:15-23; Luke 24:44-53 A liminal space – an in-between, transition time. The Latin word ‘limen’ means “threshold.” Liminal spaces are spaces of possibility, uncertainty, uneasiness, and opportunity. When there is a break between the old and new, when the old is no longer valid or functioning and…
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