Music Recital – Sunday April 12 at 2:00 pm
YOU ARE INVITED: Sunday, April 12 at 2:00 pm for a music recital. Sarah Adair, her parents and sister will give a one hour concert. It’s a family tradition and a free will offering will be taken
Devotion 4/4/26
April 4, 2026 Today is the Saturday before Easter and traditionally in the church it is called the Vigil of the Resurrection. It was tradition for many years to reenact standing outside the tomb waiting to properly bury Jesus after the required day of rest. A bonfire was lit and in many traditions it is…
Devotion 4/3/26
April 3, 2026 It happens all the time, every year, that my confirmation students will ask this: “Why is it called good if on this day Jesus died. Why is it called Good Friday?” It is a fair question because it takes literally a leap of faith to see this as a good day. The…
Devotion 4/2/26
April 2, 2026 Today is Maundy Thursday and Maundy Thursday gets its name from the Latin word mandatum from which we get mandate and command. At the Last Supper Jesus gives a new commandment to his disciples and that is why we call this Maundy Thursday. He commands them to love one another. Jesus was…
Devotion 4/1/26
April 1, 2026 Today is April Fool’s Day and it was named that because when the Romans changed the calendar to make January 1st New Year’s Day there were still some people in the Gallic and Celtic regions who still insisted on celebrating April 1st as the new year and of course on March 31st…
Devotion 3/31/26
March 31, 2026 Holy Week never ceases to amaze me. And I was this many years old when I realized that Jesus’s most intense parables, often referred to as the Apocalyptic Parables, all occurred between Palm Sunday and the Cross – he just wedged them into Holy Week somehow!. These include the Parable of the…
Devotion 3/30/26
March 30, 2026 This is the Monday of Holy Week and as such we are confronted with Jesus’s actions after Palm Sunday. One of the things we have to try to come to terms with is Jesus going into the Temple on Monday and very aggressively kicking out the money changers and those who were…
Devotion 3/28/26
March 28, 2026 Tomorrow is Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday is when Jesus rode through Bethany and Bethpage on a young donkey and the crowd spontaneously proclaimed him king. Bethany and Bethpage mean house of the ill and the afflicted and house of unripe figs and they are squatter settlements where losers live. These people have…
Devotion 3/27/26
March 27, 2026 It is no secret that every now and then we are in situations where we are quite powerless to do anything about the powers that be and what they are inflicting on us. We may trust in God’s eternal promises, we may know heaven awaits, but that doesn’t make the present suffering…
Devotion 3/26/26
March 26, 2026 One of the interesting things about reading the Bible is that the Bible makes it very clear that faith and intelligence are not enemies of each other. The book of Proverbs makes it very clear that being a lazy thinker, a dullard, intentionally unaware, is not a faithful way to live. In…