“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what […]
In Your Pajamas?!
For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them. Matthew 18:20 Dear friends, Sunday School in your pajamas…well, I’ll bet when Jesus said, “where two or three are gathered in my name” he didn’t imagine it would be by Zoom! But here we are, all of us adapting to […]
The Old Farmhouse
A Lenten Devotion by Karen Nell Smith As I watched in the night visions… Daniel 7:13 When the end is clear, the present takes on infinitely more meaning. For 20 years, my parents lived in an old farmhouse. We loved that place…surrounded by rolling green fields, a huge red barn, an icy cold Vermont stream […]
Thin Places
A Lenten Devotion by Karen Nell Smith …In them the birds build their nests; the stork has her home in the fir trees. Psalm 104:17 I always felt that the farthest corner of my grandparent’s backyard was a “thin place.” It was a quiet, peaceful place with a lovely stone bench beneath tall pine trees. […]
Dirt Under My Fingernails
That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some […]
Strangers in Our Midst
A Lenten Devotion by Karen Nell Smith The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them, […]
Christian Explorers
Christian Explorers learn more about Jesus’ teachings this month as we focus on the Gospel of Matthew. Starting with the Beatitudes at our Intergenerational Service, come to discover what Jesus has to say about being “salt and light,” and how to deal with anger. The season of Epiphany comes to an end with story of […]
Seeds of Grace Worship
Sunday, February 16 at 5:00pm for soup5:30pm worship in Susan P. Dickerman Hal. The Seeds of Grace worship team will lead a time of warm community and creative worship. Come join us for a cup of soup and a time of sharing stories and song, conversation and prayer. We hope to see you there!
Woven Together
Dear friends, On the last Sunday of the year at our potluck brunch worship service, we heard a story about the Holy Family’s flight to Egypt and a spider web that saved the young child, Jesus, hiding in cave from the wrath of King Herod’s soldiers. A community of tiny spiders wove a beautiful web […]
Following
Matthew 4:12-23 Picture this…eight days, four people, stuffed into a small rental car, traveling on narrow, winding roads through the foothills to the Alps. I start today with this story. In the fall of 1992, I took a trip with my parents to Switzerland. Our lives were in this unsettled, liminal kind of time. […]