Dear Church Family and Community,
One of my favorite things about revisiting people and stories in Scripture is learning new things you just happened to miss before. Today’s person and story is Nehemiah. I knew…
Dear Church Family and Community,
It’s hard to believe that around this time last year, we as congregation were in the final week before my installation as Sr. Pastor. That was yesteryear, although it feels…
Dear Church Family and Community,
Years ago, I remember Pastor Lynda saying that she firmly believes that God provides for the church everything she needs to do God’s work. Like most wisdom, it’s simple to…
Dear Church Family and Community,
The earliest followers of God faithfully relied on the justice of God and found peace in it. God’s justice was not limited to the final day of the Lord, when…
Dear Church Family and Community,
I love our church’s commitment to share Christ’s love globally as well as locally. We are physically in Harrisburg, and live and work across our region. This makes it easy…
Dear Church Family and Community,
Every now and then, we get one of those surreal episodes or moments that just remains with us. We remember where we were. We remember what we were doing. We…
Dear Church Family and Community,
My true introduction to Elijah came years ago, when I heard Rich Mullins sing on my cassette tape:
“But when I leave I want to go out like Elijah
With a…
Dear Church Family and Community,
I was thinking today, about how compassion is better to be known than simply known about. It can be described, it can be defined, but it’s almost always better to be…
Dear Church Family and Community,
When you think of Jesus, what comes to mind? Is it who Jesus is: Lord; God; Savior; Redeemer; Friend; Emanuel; Lamb of God; Messiah; Light of the World; Alpha and the…