February 6, 2022 Our message series we’re in is about a new beginning, about starting fresh this year. We’re focusing on the most important things in life. The first week we talked about having a New Heart. We looked at the story of the Woman at the Well and learned we can achieve a newContinue reading “New Beginning: New Friends”
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New Beginning | New Focus
January 30, 2022 The first week of our New Beginning message series was on a New Heart. We talked about how our heart can get cynical, and we don’t trust, we don’t believe in a new day. But we can trust God! If you want a new beginning it comes from a new heart forContinue reading “New Beginning | New Focus”
New Beginning: New Mind
January 25, 2022 It’s almost time for the Olympics. AGAIN. The winter Olympics is less than two weeks away! If it seems like we just had the Olympics, that’s because the 2020 summer Olympics was postponed until summer 2021. Now we’re having the on-time Winter Olympics. Athletes are going to have a real challenge. First, they have to be in top form for theContinue reading “New Beginning: New Mind”
New Beginning: A New Heart
January 16, 2022 I’m so excited, we’re starting our new sermon series on the idea of New Beginnings! We are hitting the reset button in our life or areas in our life that aren’t going the way we want. It’s about taking time to refocus on the most important things in life and starting someContinue reading “New Beginning: A New Heart”
The road less travelled
Jan. 2, 2021 Somewhere along the way in the story of the three Magi who came to visit Jesus, they get a little more important. We say they are the three kings, although it doesn’t say they were kings in our gospel reading today, Matthew 2. Instead, it says they were Magi: astrologers who studiedContinue reading “The road less travelled”
Where is Jesus?!
Dec. 26, 2021 Somewhere along the way, Mary and Joseph lost sight of 12-year-old Jesus! Nazareth was 60 miles from Jerusalem, and they walked there on foot to celebrate Passover. The whole trip was more than two weeks. It took at least three days to walk to Jerusalem, the Passover festival lasted a week, and thenContinue reading “Where is Jesus?!”
Christmas: A New Beginning
Christmas Eve, 2021 Everyone celebrates Christmas a little differently. Do you open presents on Christmas eve? Do you open them Christmas day? Do you celebrate more than one Christmas? Many years again when I was in the volunteer service in Seattle, we volunteers lived together in the same house. We opened our presents from homeContinue reading “Christmas: A New Beginning”
Missing Peace: I’m in a hurry!
December 12, 2021 Here is a Christmas cookie joke: why don’t gingerbread men have teeth? Because of ginger-vitis! We are in week three of our message series: missing peace. The first week we learned when we have a negative thought to replace it with a promise of peace: I can do all things Christ whoContinue reading “Missing Peace: I’m in a hurry!”
Missing Peace Part 1: Peace like a River
Nov 28, 2021 If you’re a little kid, eating an ice cream cone, and the ice cream falls off on the sidewalk you might start bawling. It’s understandable! I cried a lot when I was a kid. But if you’re an adult, and your ice cream falls and you start bawling, that’s unusual. Because usually we get some perspective over time: it’s not the endContinue reading “Missing Peace Part 1: Peace like a River”
Why is it hard to be grateful?
November 22, 2021 In my neighborhood, when you find a parking spot it is a source of happiness! Years ago, when Kevin and I were looking for a house to buy in Tamaqua, I looked at the parking situation, and I thought, we need to get a house with a two-car garage. Lucky enough, weContinue reading “Why is it hard to be grateful?”
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