Poor Abram

I choose to believe in this time, just as in Julian's time, just as in Jesus' time, just as in Abram’s time: God still is present, gathering us up, and loving us.

Creator of Wonder – Indigenous Peoples’ Day / Solstice / Fathers’ Day

A Sermon by Rev. Whitney Bruno - June 20, 2021 – for LCPC – Job 38: 1 - 11 “Creator of Wonder” Click here to watch this service.https://fb.watch/v/160Nw6wkA/ Our reading of Job today continues. I paraphrase the ancient Hebrew poem: Have you commanded the morning and made dawn to know its place?Do you dye the …

Rainbows of Hope – Lent 1 – Feb 21st 2021

Feb 21st, 2021 Hear and/or see this service with by clicking here. ANNOUNCEMENTS- Next Sunday is my last Sunday with St. Michaels. I am a basket case of emotions. Happy and sad. Mourning and looking forward. Everything jumbled. And so in love with our community. CENTERING So for our centering today, we’re going to use …

Father’s Day / Finding Strength in Change

What we experience, what we fear, what keeps us up at night... God knows. And cares about.

Mixed Up Inside

See this Video Here See the kid's chat here Announcements This is our offering for the food pantry this week. Did you know 1 in 5 Ohioans have filed for unemployment? And some who haven’t filed are still without income… such as many babysitters. How are we going to get through this crisis? As a …

Out of Chaos – Holiness

Trust the one who calms the sea.

Wounded Healers

Jeremiah 31:31-34 John 12:20-33 Surely the day is coming when no one will ask “Who is God?” because we’ll all know – God’s ways are written inside of us. In our hearts. There’s no question. We just know. Surely the day is coming when we will be in full understanding with God, and there won’t …

Let Me Rest

Matthew 25:1-13  The disciples ask Jesus, What sign are we to watch for – what is the coming of the Kin-dom of Heaven like? And Jesus tells them several chapters about just that. Today, we hear the parable of the 10 bridesmaids, or 10 virgins, 10 young women. It goes like this: The coming of …

One Thing I Do Know

John 9:1-41 Ephesians 5:8-14 Why do bad things happen? It's something we ask, again and again. And the people of the Bible ask it again and again. And just like we come to different conclusions, so, too, do our mothers and fathers in the faith. The most common conclusion back then, and today, is that …

Many Gifts, One Spirit

1 Corinthians 12:4-27 Once there was a congregation of about one hundred. In this congregation there was a single mom we'll call Diane, and her daughter we'll call Hannah. Now, Diane and Hannah had been through a lot of churches over the years. It wasn't the nasty divorce, or the custody hearings, or the poverty …