Friday Greetings 5/8

Friday Greetings - September 24

On the shelves in my office there is book with the odd title of Does God Need the Church? An interesting question. Spoiler alert, the...

Friday Greetings - September 17

Competition comes early in our lives and fills a big part of our experience, and maybe it has always been so. Then suddenly we come upon...

Friday Greetings - September 10

Who are you? No, really – who are you? We can answer that question in all kinds of ways. Identity has always fascinated us. Who we think...

Friday Greetings - September 3

Watching the evening news can be exhausting these days. Quite a number of friends have decided to withdraw from news and social media,...

Friday Greetings - August 27

I’m not actually a fan of musical theater, though I have seen quite a bit of it. I remember well watching the movie “Fiddler on the Roof”...

Friday Greetings - August 20

The summer is winding down, the kids are preparing to return to school, the activity of the church is starting to ramp up, and our...

Friday Greetings - August 13

What time is it? From the small clocks on our cell phones to some of the biggest clocks in the world, humans are obsessed with time. But...

Friday Greetings - August 6

This week we welcome to the pulpit, Zeb Hough, director of Religious Community Services. Zeb is a man of deep faith and has a passion for...

Friday Greetings - July 30

I saw a post some time ago that said, “I am officially resigning from adulthood. I will no longer be making any important decisions. I am...

Friday Greetings - July 23

Some of you have heard me say that the most common definition of the Church is “the voluntary assembly of like-minded individuals,” the...

Friday Greetings - July 16

“For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between...

Friday Greetings - July 9

Saint is not a term we frequently think of in terms of the church community, and to be honest, not one that we frequently deserve. Yet,...

Friday Greetings - July 2

Thomas Wolfe famously observed “you can never go home, again.” There is something about the place of our childhood that makes it...

Friday Greetings - June 25

Touch can be a powerful force for good in our lives. Even more than that though are the spiritual ways that we touch and connect with...

Friday Greetings - June 18

I think I have always been something of a weather nerd. It seems to me that one of my first Father’s Day gifts was a thermometer to put...

Friday Greetings - June 11

In preparing for this week’s worship, I came across a Mexican proverb: “they tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” The...

Friday Greetings - May 28

As a kid, follow the leader and Simon says were games that taught us to listen, look, and follow. As adults, we are not so good and...

Friday Greetings - May 21

My father loved a phrase from the musical South Pacific: “if you don’t have a dream, how can you have a dream come true.” My father...

Friday Greetings - May 14

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATING SENIORS OF 2021 This Sunday, we will hear a little of their faith journey and where God is leading them...

Friday Greetings - May 7

Last week, Pastor Tom concluded our journey through a series on being Easter People throughout our life. As we read more and grow on this...