This service can be viewed on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/Et0cNZW6jNo. We also invite you to join our first-ever Lenten virtual art show...

Scripture: Mark 1: 4 – 11 Out of the Water James A. Christopher, DMIN When Jesus came up out of the water following his baptism by John,...

Happy New Year everyone! My prayers are that you experience many moments of spontaneous joy in the coming days. In the next weeks, our...

Scripture: Matthew 16:13-20 I love the story from a church I worshiped with in NC: a lady, Maxine, taught the preschool Sunday school...

Scripture: Matthew 15:10-28 Finish this sentence: “sticks and stones may break my bones…(but words will never hurt me).” It’s such a...

Scripture: Matthew 14:22-33 Can you imagine being a disciple of Jesus - as in one of the original twelve? They had so many things thrown...

Scripture: Matthew 14:13-21 Feeding the 5,000. If you grew up in the church, you may have a memory of a felt board or a coloring page or...

Scripture: Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 What is marshmallow fluff like? What is the Caribbean like? What is your ideal day like? People ask...

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 When I read this week’s scripture in the Gospel of Matthew, I immediately noticed that the message comes off as...

Scripture: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 I’ve thought about plants a lot this week - partly because of this Scripture and probably partly because...

Scripture: Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Have you ever heard the quote “truth will only make you unpopular”? (Wolfgang Berchert) No. Not...

Scripture: Matthew 10:40-42 In today’s segment of “podcasts Pastor Kim endorses” is one called The Nuanced Life. It’s two women talking...

Scripture: Matthew 10:26-39 Wow - what to do with this selection? When I first read it, hear it, in the spirit of lectio divina practice...

Scripture: Matthew 9:35-10:23 If last week was Jesus’ pep talk for post-resurrection inspiration, today’s Scripture is Jesus’ rallying...

Scripture: Matthew 28:16-20 You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. It’s so true. And so frustrating! Clearly, there...

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:4-13 I have two questions for us today. Only two. Already, I’m hoping that some of you (who maybe didn’t...

Scripture: Acts 17:22-31 This scene from Acts makes me think of many classic teaching scenes - with all the teachers in our congregation,...

Scripture: Acts 2:42-47 Ever wonder how this time of quarantine will be talked about in years to come - in 1 year, 50 years, 100 years,...

Scripture: Luke 24:13-35 Everytime I see this story from Scripture come up in the lectionary (the suggested reading for the church week),...

Scripture: John 20:19-28 Somehow during divinity school, I was friends with a lot of members of Duke Divinity’s Improv group, Acts of the...