This Sunday, April 8, my colleague and friend Rev. Dr. William B. Randolph will be preaching (and I am excited to hear him!).  Will and I have known each other for years, and as he is now back in Western Pennsylvania after a stint in Nashville as Director of Aging and Older Adult Ministries for the General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church.  His sermon at 9:15 will be "Not Yet Old Enough" from Psalm 139:1-18; at 11 it will be "Seeing God" from Genesis 33:1-15.

Click on this link to the Pastor’s Ponderings for April 8, 2018, to learn more about Will and to check out the Scriptures for Sunday.

See you in worship, at 9:15 AM (Modern) and/or 11:00 AM (Traditional).

                                      Grace and Peace, Pastor Bruce

We love the kind of stories where seeming defeat is overcome with unexpected, redemptive victory.  That is Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter in a nutshell. More than a redemptive story of victory in the face of defeat, it is THE redemptive story of victory in the face of defeat.  It is the prototype for the kind of story we all love.

To do a fuller justice to the story (I can't claim to really do it the full justice it deserves), ATTEND ALL THREE of the worship services, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.  Experience the emotions, the questions, the unfolding of the events. You will appreciate even more THE prototype redemptive story, and that YOU are part of it.

Once again, I draw from the wisdom and fluency of Frederick Buechner: "Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst".  How does this tie in with Jesus processing into Jerusalem on that Palm Sunday a couple of thousand years ago? How does that tie in with him being crucified by the Friday of that same week? We'll look at this on Sunday, and you can read a longer exposition of this idea through this link to the Pastor’s Ponderings for March 25, 2018.

See you in worship, at 9:15 AM (Modern) and/or 11:00 AM (Traditional).

                                      Grace and Peace, Pastor Bruce