Devotion: Earth Day Ask the Animals

Job 12:7-13 7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you,    the birds of the air, and they will tell you;8 ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you,    and the fish of the sea will declare to you.9 Who among all these does not know    that the hand of the Most Powerful has done this?10 In God’s hand is the …

Rural Life Sunday; Show Me The Truth

Younger Saint's Moment - reading the book "A Prayer for the Earth: The Story of Naamah, Noah's Wife" by Rabbi Sandy Sasso.   Link to video   Watch the below sermon here   ANNOUNCEMENTS Please keep tithing Please tune back in here. Consistory is examining how to open us safely but we’re not yet ready …

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 …

Caretakers of Love & Knowledge

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Mark 1:21-28 I like reading websites full of weird facts, stories, and research. This week I fell down the internet rabbit hole of the Smithsonian Magazine online. I read about the Herero Genocide. Never heard of it? Me either until now. But it was where Germany perfected genocide, and tested out the …

Wisdom is Known by Her Deeds

Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67 Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 I recently read a sermon by Rev. Darrel Lakey called “Christian, you are upset about the wrong things.” To make his point, he uses a cuss word: ‘last night, 30,000 children died of starvation and most of you don’t give a …” And if your first response is: …