A great way to get to know our new senior pastor, Bill Eaves, is through reading! Bill is an avid, eclectic, and discerning reader—and that’s about the highest praise your librarian can offer. Bill has provided us with a list of some of his favorites. There’s everything from...
A little more than a year ago, I gave some serious thought to what I was seeing and hearing from our Children’s Ministries’ “recent grads,” the 6th- and 7th-graders. Every fall, a few would hover by the children’s rooms and look longingly at the glitter glue, tubs...
Common Hope is a St. Paul based organization that serves communities in the Antigua region of Guatemala. Its main focus is education, but affiliated families also receive services that help them reach their full potential. A rich part of the Common Hope relationship is the sponsorship program...
Dear Friends: I am looking forward with great joy and deep humility to being your pastor. As I begin, I want to tell you a little about myself so we don’t have to feel like strangers the first time we meet. I grew up in Georgia, and the beginnings of my call to ministry came in a United...
Our Baldwin is broken! Most Sundays, more doesn’t work than works. Thanks to Peteria’s skill, you may not have noticed. It has been a challenge and a large expense to find the repairmen and parts to keep it going. A small group of us has been commissioned to an intense search for...
We are on our last Sunday of our sermon series, Lent—A Call to True Life. At the start of the Lenten Journey I shared this introduction to the Faith Compass:“As disciples of the Lord Jesus we are called to resist the sin that separates us from the love of God and neighbor. The...
I continue to be drawn to what Henri Nouwen says in his book, Making All Things New. Jesus . . . does not try to pull us away from, or say what we do is unimportant, or suggest that we withdraw from the struggles of the world. . . . Jesus . . . asks us to relocate the center of our attentions...
Richard Foster in his book, Celebration of Discipline, begins with these words: “Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but...
You see in the circle to the right the word “calling,” which can also be described as identity. Perhaps “the” question of life is the question of identity—“Who am I?” I googled this question and found vastly different points of view on what creates a...
As disciples of the Lord Jesus we are called to resist the sin that separates us from the love of God and neighbor. The disciplines of Lent—repentance, fasting, prayer, reading of scripture and works of love—help us turn to and live in the harmony that God desires for all creation...