by Patricia Templeton | Mar 28, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” These are the words that Jesus said to his disciples on the last night of his life. Love one another. Jesus...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 23, 2024 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, Bulletins, News
Dear friends, Tomorrow begins the most solemn, sacred week of the Christian year, the lead up to Easter known as Holy Week. We start tomorrow with Palm Sunday (service leaflet attached), a day that begins with joy and triumph as Jesus enters Jerusalem, and ends in...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 17, 2024 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” That was the request of some Greeks who were visiting a festival in Jerusalem, or someplace close by. They ask this of one of Jesus’ disciples, Philip, who tells his friend Andrew. The two of them go to Jesus with the...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 16, 2024 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, Bulletins, News
Dear friends, The service leaflet for tomorrow is attached. It’s hard to believe that one week from tomorrow is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. I’ll be sending out a lot more information about that next week, but mark your calendars for the...
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...
