Our earliest memories may include beautiful things we’ve seen: sunsets, beach scenes, mountains. Others of our earliest memories are lik...

The problem of suffering Suffering as a challenge to faith has been around as long as human beings. But it’s still immediate. We wrestl...

In times of crisis, our normal ways of doing things do NOT apply! We find that nothing is the way it used to be. The entire fabric of o...

We feel distant from God, even abandoned. Jesus has something to tell us about staying connected with God. If you love me, keep my comma...

Today we’re going to talk about the specifics of that SECOND resurrection – the resurrection of the disciples. Of course, we’ll talk abo...

Scholars Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan say that “Without Easter, we wouldn’t know about Jesus. If his story had ended with his cr...

“Extra! Extra! Read all about it!” That used to be the cry of city newspaper hawkers when a “Special Edition” was printed with breaking...

We are focusing on Lament Psalms for this Lenten season. Lament returns our attention to God – and as we lament together we become a comm...

We like to be in control. Of ourselves – of situations. We like to know that we are calling the shots, making the decisions, and determi...

Thank you to all who supported our carnations fundraiser!  We appreciate your generosity. COMING SOON!  The Pink Move Warning! There have...

MISSION MOMENT Please mail in your special offerings in support of our missionary -- or you can do a bank check to the church with MISSIO...

From Pastor Katherine: One of the opportunities that we have in this COVID-19 world is the opportunity to show compassion.  We show it in...

Beginning at 7:30am on Tuesday, Housing Forward will centralize PADS Shelter services and Support Center services at one location at Oak...

"God, why have you abandoned us forever? Why does your anger smolder at the sheep of your own pasture?" (CEB) Have you ever cried out som...

This psalm, as comfortable as we are with it, and as wonderful as it sounds – is difficult to buy into in our present reality. In a Coron...

The Theodicy Problem How can God be just when there is so much evil in the world? Why do good people suffer while those who oppress them ...

“Oh, God! two-word prayer… Aunt Margaret’s sons/diagnosis/death of loved one…we cry out! Prayer can be a challenge for many of us. We str...

Psalm 51 Walter Brueggemann has observed that the psalms move a worshipper from a point where life is stable and faith is taken for gran...

Just around the Riverbend Everything can be new. The past is important, of course. The past tells us how God has been at work in our stor...