By Rev. Wendy Depew Partelow: “… to trust in the promises requires us to let go: let go of always wanting to be in control, let go of having our own way, and let go of our over-abundance of resources so that there is enough for all God’s children.”
Continue reading →By Rev. Wendy Depew Partelow: “I wonder: What was John’s life like growing up, born for this specific purpose? It must have been a favorite story told to him by his parents from the time he was very little. How he was a miracle sent by God.”
Continue reading →By Rev. Wendy Depew Partelow: “I wonder: What was John’s life like growing up, born for this specific purpose? It must have been a favorite story told to him by his parents from the time he was very little. How he was a miracle sent by God.”
Continue reading →By Rev. Mark Breese: “For as certain as it is that darkness comes with the night, the dawn is just as certain to follow. And through all these trials, God continues to sustain us. Life, like hope, is tenacious.”
Continue reading →By Rev. Wendy Depew Partelow: “And so I see that we need to set a plumb line up so that our country is more balanced – not leaning too far to the left or too far to the right – because if a tower leans too far either way, eventually it will topple.”
Continue reading →By Rev. Wendy Depew Partelow: “Soon we will enter a New Year and Advent, a time of waiting for the coming Messiah, the birth of a child that will grow up as the Christ, and through his life will live the love of God, that we might live it too! There’s hope in that!”
Continue reading →By Rev. Mark Breese: “Therefore, for the child, the imaginative inner life is unending. To them, from the midst of that inner life, their decisions and choices seem grand and consequential—and we adults watch in loving (and maybe even in envious) amusement, as they work through their great matters of consequence.”
Continue reading →By Rev. Wendy Depew Partelow: “Hope is the green shoot that refuses to be hindered by the cement surrounding a crack in the pavement..”
Continue reading →By Rev. Wendy Depew Partelow: “We bear one another’s burdens and we restore and are restored in a spirit of gentleness and love. But we also have to carry our own load and take responsibility for our actions against others.”
Continue reading →By Rev. Mark Breese: “what lengths we will go to in order to have our own selfish (and often misguided) ways and our own selfish (and often misguided) desires—and often at the expense of others and even ourselves. But there is a remedy”
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