When Grace Doesn’t Feel Graceful

Steve Lindsley Exodus 16: 2-15, Matthew 20: 1-16 Scripture tells us that “the first shall be last and the last shall be first.”  Where you are in any given situation plays a large role in determining how you feel about that.  As a Panthers, Hornets and Wake Forest...

Move Closer

Steve Lindsley Ephesians 2: 11-22 The family table is set up in the dining room.  Or the kitchen, or maybe the screened-in porch outside.  Wherever it is, meals are consumed there; stories shared, lives made real.  A table where each one gathered around it is held up...

Love in Action

Steve Lindsley 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 It happens every now and then when I meet with an engaged couple to plan the details of their wedding.   At some point in the conversation they mention how they would like someone to read the “Love Chapter” – or they may just say,...

Be Curious and Be Yourself

Rev. Rebecca M Heilman-Campbell 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 You’ve heard me share this story before. In her book, Breathing Space, Heidi Neumark writes about her friend, Miss Ellie. Miss Ellie lives on John’s Island near Charleston, South Carolina on a small dirt road in a...

Ministry Match: Handing Out Gifts

Steve Lindsley Ephesians 4: 1-7, 11-13, 15-16; John 6: 1-13  Back in 1926, the United States Congress authorized a huge auction.  The items up for bidding were patent models sent to Washington DC over many years by idealistic inventors that, for whatever reason, did...

Solidarity Costs Something

Rev. Rebecca M. Heilman-Campbell, Associate Pastor John 20: 19-31 The reality of a country burdened by systems of oppression that reduces the availability of medical treatment, clean water, or a safe environment meant I attended many funerals during my year in Zambia,...