How many times can someone say or write that we are living in unprecedented times? Yet that is what many of us feel. Our entire planet is suffering from the global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus, and the subsequent stay-athome orders and lockdown of our livelihood and economy.
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How many times can someone say or write that we are living in unprecedented times? Yet that is what many of us feel. Our entire planet is suffering from the global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus, and the subsequent stay-athome orders and lockdown of our livelihood and economy.
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As we enter into the 40 days of Lent, we are reminded of the 40 days Jesus was tempted in the wilderness and are reminded of the 40 years that the Israelites wandered in the wilderness. The time in the wilderness is a not an easy time, but it is a time of learning who […]
Read NewsletterWhat Cant Wait?!
When preparing the theme for this newsletter, Linda Sterner, our producer and editor extraordinaire, asked if the title should be a question or a statement. I mistakenly thought the theme was a statement, saying “What Can’t Wait.” What Linda’s question has forced me to realize is that it is both a question and a statement.
Read NewsletterGod’s Work, Our Hands
One of the basic ways to understand Christianity is that God comes to people through people. God in Jesus chose to become human to bring God’s presence to us through a human. Jesus came as the full embodiment of God in human form so that we could understand the power, depth, and breadth of God’s […]
Read NewsletterMay 12, 2019 God’s Power Unleashed- Pastor Joel Pancoast
Readings: Revelation 6:1-8; 7:9-17
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While many think of Easter as a one-day event to remember and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, for the Christian church it is a fifty-day season beginning with Easter Sunday and ending with Pentecost Sunday. Fifty days! I cannot imagine sustaining our Easter celebration for fifty days!
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Growing up, I attended a Catholic school that was run by nuns. Not the smack-your-knuckles-with-a-ruler kind of nuns, but kind, loving, and joyful nuns. Some of my classmates would joke that Sister Marie-Therese never sat down; she was always on the move.
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