This Sunday we’re going to camp out on one of the most famous Christmas choruses as we listen to the lyrics made famous for millions of people around the globe…
You know what a “Bucket List” is, right? The idea is to make a list of the things you’d like to do or experience before you ‘kick the bucket.’ The…
Over the last several years, more and more radio stations have been switching their formats to all-Christmas, all-the-time during this season. “Arbitron says it’s not unusual for ratings to double…
This Sunday, November 29th, we start a new Advent Series called the "Songs of Christmas." It is going to be a fun 4-week look at the first four Christmas Carols…
Sunday, November 15th, as we conclude the current series of messages using the acronym S-P-I-C-E-S, we’re going to take a look at the last letter, the 2nd “S” – Stewardship… specifically…
A common misconception about Quaker Christianity is that Friends don't believe in baptism or communion (or any of the other sacraments). This is far from the truth! Friends today are…
Our gathering on a weekly basis is as a caring community and we come to pray, to learn, and to share our experience of faith. We also gather as a…
“Thus saith the Lord: Do whatever you can get away with. Lie when it is to your advantage. Don’t worry if others don’t trust you, because you can’t trust them…
This week we’re going to take a look at peacemaking. Peace is something Quakers are supposed to know something about! Friends are famously known everywhere as peacemakers or “witnesses for…
This week I want us to look at one of the very basic issues for Christians today. What are we to do with the Bible? Are we supposed to take…
"Rabbi, please tell me. I am a ruler. I am an educated man. I am a religious man. But Rabbi, I have this void in my heart and I am…
Follow Me & Proclaim God's Love :: What is the “IT” factor about our church? What is at the center of being a Quaker Christian? Two experiences in the life and times…
The song that most of us learned as children goes, “I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart, down in my heart, down in my heart. I’ve got the…
Adam may have been the first to honestly say, “Everybody else is doing it.” Truth is not determined by who believes it, or why they believe it, or how many…
The Bible says in Genesis 2.18, “It’s not good for the Man to be alone; I’ll make him a helper, a companion” (MSG). We were made for relationships. We were…
The intellectual as a spiritual temperament reminds us of the high calling of loving God with our mind. Our culture doesn’t always think of the mind when it thinks of…
Enthusiasm—it’s one of the greatest words in the English language! It is a word that is built deeply into the victorious spirit of humanity. The word enthusiasm is derived from…
Pablo Casals, the great Spanish cellist, said “The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest meaning and significance.” By caring for others we pull ourselves out…
“There is only one kind of person who can fight the Lord’s battles in anywhere near a proper way, and that is the person who by nature is unbelligerent. A…
“Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders” (Deut. 33:12). “Resting between…
There's an old hymn that I love to sing; most of you will will recall it: "When the Roll is Called Up Yonder." It speaks to a family reunion... "when…
Some people, as they have discovered their soul's best path to God, value solitude, simplicity, and strictness. This Sacred Pathway, as Gary Thomas calls it, is the "Ascetic Path." Susanna Wesley,…
Ritual. Tradition. Symbol. Religion. Rote. Meaningless. That’s how many people think about rituals or formalities in the context of worship where the order of events is pre-determined. If it‘s not spontaneous or…
Cleta Crisman, as our guest speaker, led us in taking a look at Paul's letter to the Roman church (Romans 12:1-2) as a metaphor that describes the normal stages of the spiritual…