by pastoramelie | Jan 20, 2026 | Blog
Friends, our worship services will focus on the Gospel of John over the next few months. Last week, we focused on Jesus’ first miracle – turning water into wine at the wedding of Cana. This week, we pick up where we left off last week. After the wedding, Jesus...
by pastoramelie | Jan 20, 2026 | Blog
Friends, in the month of January we are beginning our study of the Gospel of John. Last week, we read about John the Baptist telling his disciples that Jesus was the Messiah – several of John’s former disciples decamped and began to follow Jesus instead. As Jesus...
by pastoramelie | Jan 7, 2026 | Blog
Friends, on this first Sunday of the year, we turn to the beginning of the book of John. John is quite different from the other three books of the Gospel: Matthew, Mark and Luke. Instead of starting the beginning of his book with the birth of Jesus, like Matthew and...
by pastoramelie | Dec 16, 2025 | Blog
This is the third week in the season of Advent. During this season, our scripture lessons come to us from the prophets. Some of the prophets who foretold of the coming Messiah lived centuries before Jesus’ birth. For them, the birth of the Messiah was something...
by pastoramelie | Dec 10, 2025 | Blog
Friends, today we begin the second week in the season of Advent…the first month in the Christian calendar. This is a season of waiting…we remember the 9 months Mary waited for her baby to be born….we remember the almost 10 centuries the people of God waited for the...
by pastoramelie | Oct 21, 2025 | Blog
Last week, we focused on the call of Samuel to become a prophet for God. When God first started appearing to and communicating with Samuel, he was just a boy…probably around 12 years old. Samuel became the primary prophet in the land of Israel. He lived his...
by pastoramelie | Oct 14, 2025 | Blog
Last week, we visited the Hebrew people in the desert. They wandered there for 40 years until they were ready to enter the promised land. This morning, we are entering the story 400 years, or so, later. The people of Israel entered their land and settled it....
by pastoramelie | Oct 7, 2025 | Blog
Today is World Communion Sunday. Christians all over the world are making a special effort to partake in Holy Communion today. We meet our brothers and sisters in Christ, from every country and every continent, at Christ’s table and partake in Christ’s holy meal...
by pastoramelie | Sep 30, 2025 | Blog
Last week, my friends, we focused on a few stories from the life of Jacob, the son of Isaac, and the grandson of Abraham and Sarah. Jacob inherited the Covenant God made with Abraham and Sarah and was promised to be blessed by God and to become the father of as many...
by pastoramelie | Sep 26, 2025 | Blog
This morning, we return to the early stories of our faith. Last week, we focused on the story of the difficult choice Abraham was forced to make – whether or not to sacrifice his young son. Today we will focus on a story of events that occurred later in Isaac’s...
