Jan 8, 2017 |
By: Holly Inglis Why should the church pay attention to brain research? With everything else happening in and around us, why should we attempt to understand and apply scientific research about the brain? What difference would it, could it make? Consider these...
Jan 1, 2017 |
By: Anna George Traynham God of new life, We give you thanks for this day: the first in a new year of life and faith. If we have learned from the lesson of years past, We can guess what this year might hold. There will be joy, and there will be heartbreak....
Dec 25, 2016 |
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Dec 18, 2016 |
By: Kaylee Osteen “An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham.” Matthew 1:1 (NRSV) Over the past few years, the summer Montreat Youth Conferences have inspired me in a multitude of ways. Escaping to the mountains of North...
Dec 11, 2016 |
By: Carol Wehrheim The Kim family arrived in the sanctuary just as the Call to Worship began. The girls in first and fourth grades sat with their parents until the storyteller called children forward for the Bible story that would be the focus of their Sunday school...
Dec 4, 2016 |
By: David Gambrell The Christian year is an ancient pattern of seasons and festivals by which congregations and individuals immerse themselves in the story of God’s saving love through Jesus Christ. This way of keeping time is sometimes called the liturgical year or...
Nov 27, 2016 |
By: Craig Foster “Now that we have a camera in the sanctuary, what’s the cheapest and easiest way we can get our services online?” That simple question from our pastor started our venture into livestreaming our worship services over seven years ago. We had just...
Nov 20, 2016 |
By: Beth Thaxton If you see sixth graders jumping up and down, it’s because they just got their first cell phone. Or more appropriately, they’re not jumping… because you really can’t jump and Snapchat at the same time. Too dangerous. The youth in my congregation often...
Nov 13, 2016 |
By: Liv Looney Cappelmann Facebook was originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission—to make the world more open and connected. – Mark Zuckerberg Friends, it is no secret we are living in the digital media era. There are hundreds of...
Nov 6, 2016 |
By: Beth Herrinton-Hodge As we stand on the eve of Election Day in the United States, words from our weekly lectionary readings give messages of courage, steadfastness, strength in God and in Jesus Christ – the source of our life and our hope. Take courage. Stand...
