A Weary World Rejoices: Stories of Joy

Rev. Rebecca M. Heilman Luke 1:39-55 REBECCA: I’m taking a different spin on our Scripture this week. We will be looking at the Magnificat, the song that Mary sings when she learns she will be a God bearer, she will be the mother to Jesus. For our sermon today, I will...

A Weary World Rejoices: Stories of Preparing

Dr. Steve Lindsley Luke 3:1-6 Today’s scripture is a story of preparing.  We’re all preparing for something at some point in life, are we not?  For example, for a decade or so of Thanksgivings it’s fallen to me to prepare the family Thanksgiving turkey – this...

A Weary World Rejoices – Stories of Waiting

Dr. Steve Lindsley Luke 21:25-36 This week, Rebecca and I begin a three-week Advent sermon series titled, “A Weary World Rejoices.”  A theme that seems most appropriate given where we find ourselves in this particular holy season.  We are tired and exhausted, it is...

2021 Advent Devotions – Night Watch

By Teri McDowell Ott Beauty – Week 1 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH | GENESIS 1:1-5 I encourage you to begin this devotion series at night, outside if you can. That’s where I am now — writing this on our back porch, my notebook lit with a small battery-powered lamp. I...

Lean in & Know

Rev. Rebecca M. Heilman “Revelation 1:4b8 I knew how to attract a crowd during my time in Zambia as a Young Adult Volunteer for the PCUSA. All unintentional, of course.  I lived with a host family in an inner-city neighborhood in the capital city of Lusaka,...