Sing (Play) for Your Supper

I’ve heard it said that the world needs more music. I’ve also heard it said that our church needs more potlucks. So, we’re combining the two! Come enjoy the perfect pair of music and food on February 24 at 4:00 PM. We’ll have a sharing of musical talent with a potluck following. We need people

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Annual Congregational Meeting

The Annual Congregational Meeting will be held Sunday, January 27 at 11:30 AM in the sanctuary. Following the meeting, please join us for a time of fellowship with a potluck lunch. Everyone is asked to bring a dish to share. If you have any reports to submit for the annual meeting booklet, please turn them

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The Pastor’s Page January

Tolle lege. I know to many of you that may look like gibberish, but those words tolle lege (pronounced toll-ay, lay-gay) changed the world. There was a man in ancient times named Augustine. He is considered an early Church Father. His thinking changed the Church in its early stages. Later, his thought inspired Martin Luther

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Lullaby For A Petrified Sacred Society

by Jason Upton Shut up the windowsLock all the doorsMake sure nobody gets inLearn to protect what is rightfully yoursOr someone will take it my friend We’ll all sleep well tonightWith no worry about tomorrowEverything’s all rightSafe in our panic room We’re building a wallHigher and higherCome join the gospel crusadeDon’t you know God lovesGood

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Ancient Prayers for These Times

Call to Confessionby Ambrose (c. 330-397), Bishop of MilanO Lord, who is all merciful: Take away my sins from me, and enkindle within me the fire of Your Holy Spirit. Take away this heart of stone from me, and give me a heart of flesh and blood, a heart to love and adore You, a

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The True Story of Pain and Hope Behind “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”

DECEMBER 21, 2014 Justin TaylorIn March of 1863, 18-year-old Charles Appleton Longfellow walked out of his family’s house on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and unbeknownst to his family—boarded a train bound for Washington, D.C., traveling over 400 miles across the eastern seaboard in order to join President Lincoln’s Union army to fight in the

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The Pastor’s Page December

This year’s Christmas sermon will focus on the poverty of Christmas. It may sound like a peculiar theme given the excess of the season. Lights are everywhere taxing our overburdened electrical grid. Decorations are evermore elegant and elaborate and come with an ever increasing price tag. And don’t get me started on the trees—no seriously,

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