Knowing Our Station Shining Our Light Week 2 Epiphany 4, Year A Becky Robbins-Penniman A question for those of us who were here last week: what was the most important thing you heard Canon Chris Gray say to us? What I heard was the power of ONE to make an enormous difference in the lives […]
Epiphany 3, Year A The Rev. Canon Chris Gray Watch the 10 AM service live:
Let’s Take a Walk Epiphany 2, Year A Becky Robbins-Penniman What are you looking for? This is THE human question. At one level or another, every person I know or know of is looking for something. Hungry people are looking for food, endangered people are looking for safety, suffering people are looking for comfort, […]
I Love You; I Forgive You; Supper’s Ready Baptism of Jesus, Epiphany 1, Year A Becky Robbins-Penniman Over 20 years ago, in a sermon by a Lutheran Bishop, Cal Holloway, he related that a national poll had asked, “What words do you most want to hear said to you?” The 3 phrases that led […]
Abnormal Christians 2nd Sunday After Christmas, Year A Becky Robbins-Penniman The magi are up in our Creche on the side altar. They’re a day early. Tomorrow is the feast of the Epiphany, and it’s the day when we tell the story of the strangers from a far-away land who arrived in Israel looking for the […]
Using Your Bean Signs of Life: Why Church Matters Ash Wednesday, Year A Becky Robbins-Penniman What should we make of the biggest news story of 2020 so far, the coronavirus? Or, as it is officially called now, COVID-19. It’s this: humans can lose perspective even faster than they can jump to conclusions. 8,000 children die […]
The Word Made Flesh 1st Sunday After Christmas, Year A Deacon Cindy Roehl Have you noticed that just this weekend, in many homes and neighborhoods, the decorations have already come down? We have all been waiting a long time, and suddenly, for many, the day has come and gone. Ours is still here because, actually, […]
Happy Christmas! Advent 4, Year A Service of Advent Lessons & Carols Becky Robbins-Penniman This particular service of Advent Lessons and Carols is unique; unique to this parish, this little corner of God’s world. In this service, we look the story of the Nativity in a huge sweep of time; we begin with a peek […]
Sing Out for Joy Advent 3, Year A Becky Robbins-Penniman What are the rules of faith? The rules most of us grew up with a variation of this: God wants to be with only a very few special people, and God is just itching to punish the rest of us with terrifying vengeance. So straighten […]
One Thousand Days of Love Advent 2, Year A Maureen Belote Isaiah 11 ~ “Righteousness will be the belt around his hips.” What does this mean? In Luke 3:7 9, John the Baptist called for repentance and righteous behavior such as is pleasing to God. What is righteousness? It is being just and right […]
