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Denomination Sunday is a great time to decorate your sanctuary with things from the past. Instead of a banner, you may want to hang a quilt behind the pulpit. You can gather old equipment, furniture, and memorabilia. And you can gather other things that might be important symbols of our denomination and your church in […]

Many churches have a Youth Sunday, led by the youth, that may be at another time other than in February. If not, celebrate your youth in February! If you do, this would be a great time to honor them instead of them having to lead worship. Imagine the sanctuary being decorated with larger posters of […]

Our American culture is enamored with the big, beautiful, and glamorous. We devour every little tidbit about what celebrities (usually movie stars) wear and do, where they live and vacation, who their friends are. A television show once spent an entire week showing footage of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and his fiancée having an argument […]

If Acts 4:32-37 were printed (without the reference to “the Lord Jesus”) in our local newspapers or broadcast on the nightly news, immediately we would think this was another David Koresh or Jim Jones cult and shake our heads at these religious fanatics who mindlessly throw their lives away into the hands of some demented […]

Philip Yancey, in his book, The Jesus I Never Knew, says about Jesus, “More amazing is his refusal to perform and to overwhelm. God’s terrible insistence on human freedom is so absolute that he granted us the power to live as though he did not exist, to spit on his face, to crucify him.” God […]

What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus? It means that with our lips we confess that Jesus is the Messiah, the One who has come to deliver us from the bondage of our sin. And with our lives we demonstrate that, indeed, we have been freed from the power and lust of […]

In the two stories found in Luke 10:38-42 and John 12:1-8, we see two different pictures of love for Jesus. In the first story, Martha is busy preparing an elaborate meal for Jesus. In the second, Judas Iscariot says that Mary’s perfume could have been sold and the money used for the poor. Mary, on […]

God’s salvation and redemption of our sinful world will not be fast and easy. God’s redemption is not something happens “out there” nor is it only for a few. It will be complete. Governments, political and economic systems, social structures will be exposed for their inability to make a safe and free world and will […]

Are We Blind to Injustice? Joy Warren Call to Worship Leader:            For once we were darkness, but now in the Lord we are light. People:            Let us live as children of light! Leader:            The fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true. People:            Let […]

Speak Out and Give Hope Shelia O’Mara Reflection before worship: “But today, in too many places around the world—including right here in the United States—the injustice of modern slavery and human trafficking still tears at our social fabric. During National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, we resolve to shine a light on every dark […]