It’s Not All about the Database

As a staff, we’re feeling as though we aren’t doing a good job of communicating even though we now use more communications outlets than ever before.  But somehow a great new website, a monthly newsletter, a weekly enews blast, and a Facebook page are still not helping...

Promise-Making, Promise-Keeping (text & audio)

  READING Click here to read “Directions” by Billy Collins SERMON “Do you promise?” The question always catches our granddaughter for a second: then her reply, with a sober expression framing her big brown eyes: “Yes, I promise.” The request is never...

A Wild Delight (text & audio)

  When it comes to spiritual guides, I have admitted to you before, I have a weakness for Ralph Waldo Emerson. Yes, his webs of prose can be enigmatic, even infuriating. “What on earth are you getting at here?” I want to shout at times. But at other times I am...

Staying Put (text & audio)

  I have to say it’s been interesting hearing people’s reactions to this week’s sermon title. “Staying put, huh?” I wouldn’t say the response has been entirely positive. Viewed from one perspective, “staying put” sounds a bit like “being stuck,” a kind of...