Celebrate, Celebrate, Come On Let’s Celebrate

Rev. Rebecca Heilman-Campbel Acts 2:1-8 A few weeks back, Douglas and I were at dinner with some friends when we got on the topic of current slang used by the generation below us. I hope the youth here can laugh at this because we truly sounded ridiculous as...

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...