by Patricia Templeton | Mar 10, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Sunday morning has a language all its own, full of words that we seldom, if ever, use other times of the week. Words like repentance, righteousness, grace, incarnation. Words that I suspect we would be hard pressed to easily define. Sometimes the strange...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 4, 2024 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Last week was the first anniversary of Joe’s death. It was a day I had dreaded for weeks, really since Joseph Henry and I got back from Italy in early January at about the same time that Joe went to the hospital last year. For the last two months I...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 3, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Every year during Lent we begin our service with a version of the Ten Commandments, either the full reading of them as we did today, or a condensed version of what Jesus calls the two greatest commandments – to love God and to love your neighbor. The...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 2, 2024 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, Bulletins, News
Dear friends, You may remember that last Sunday we changed one of the hymns mid-service because, as I said at annoucements, it contained a word that is forbidden during Lent. Several of you asked me afterwards what that word was, which made me think it might be time...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 25, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Today’s service is a little bit different from what we would normally do on the Second Sunday in Lent. As you know, this week our parishioner David Abner died after a stay in hospice. David’s children preferred not to have a formal funeral for their...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 24, 2024 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, Bulletins, News
The service leaflet for tomorrow is attached. Hope to see you in the morning. e-version-Lent-2-24B-Sunday-Feb-25-2024Download Tricia
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 21, 2024 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, I am writing to let you know that our parishioner David Abner died this morning. David has been in hospice for several weeks after a fall in January. His family is not planning to have a service, but I think we as a congregation need to remember him with...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 18, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
The story of the rainbow is a curious reading for the first Sunday in Lent. We are at the beginning of the most somber season of the church year, a time set aside for reflection and repentance, for fasting and self-denial. We began the service today with the Great...
