by Patricia Templeton | Sep 12, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Today I have a message for your from our treasurer Lee Morris, and some other news and updates. Also, the service sheet for tomorrow is attached: Pentecost-15-Proper-19-20A-September-13Download Here is the note from Lee: As your treasurer, I continue to...
by Patricia Templeton | Sep 11, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
September 11, 2001We Remember “It is the greatness and heart of the Christian message that God, as manifest in the Christ on the cross, totally participates in the dying of a child, in the condemnation of a criminal, in the disintegration of a mind, in...
by Patricia Templeton | Sep 10, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” — John 1:1Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” — John 14:6Jesus...
by Patricia Templeton | Sep 9, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, As we struggle on in the midst of a global pandemic that continues to take the lives of upwards of 1,000 people a day in this country, the Church gives us a reminder today that we are not the first to live through treacherous times. Today on the Church...
by Patricia Templeton | Sep 6, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Ever since reading the Gospel early this week I have been thinking about a young man I once knew named Todd. Todd grew up in the Midwest as a Jehovah’s Witness. His father was a leader in that denomination’s hierarchy. His...
by Patricia Templeton | Sep 5, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, In my days as a political reporter for the Nashville Banner, Labor Day weekend was not just the unofficial end of summer. It was also the time that things kicked into high gear in whatever political races we were covering. The same is true today....
by Patricia Templeton | Sep 2, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, In spring 2019 many of us participated in a project to collect soil from the sites of the 36 lynchings of Black Americans in Fulton County. The lynchings were identified by the Equal Justice Initiative, an amazing organization based in Montgomery, that...
by Patricia Templeton | Aug 30, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Last February top executives from around the country and around the globe gathered for a conference in Boston. For two days, as The Washington Post reports, “they shook hands, kissed cheeks, passed each other the salad tongs at the...
