Midweek Hymn Devotional

ACCLAMATION and READING A new creation comes to life and grows as Christ’s new body takes on flesh and blood. The universe, restored and whole, will sing: Alleluia! (UMH #610, st. 3)   Romans 6: 3-11 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into...

Pastors Pondering

One of the things that I most appreciate about the church in general is that it is a place where we find lots of different people coming together. There are senior adults and infants, toddlers and teenagers, middle agers and middle schoolers that are found in most...

Midweek Hymn Devotional

INVOCATION and READING Holy Spirit, Truth divine, dawn upon this soul of mine. Voice of God, and inward Light, wake my spirit, clear my sight. Samuel Longfellow   Acts 1: 1-5 1 In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2...

Pastors Pondering

This week, closing arguments have been made, and the jury began deliberations in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin. It has been a year since the death of George Floyd was captured on video and widely shared on social media. For many in this...