Living the Advent: Proclaim

Living the Advent: Proclaim

Sunday, December 11, 2016 Third Sunday of Advent Isaiah 35:1-10 Psalm 146:5-10 Luke 1:46b-55 James 5:7-10 Matthew 11:2-11 “Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead our...
An Undelivered Funeral Message by Stephanie Porter-Nichols

An Undelivered Funeral Message by Stephanie Porter-Nichols

I’ve never wanted to officiate a funeral service so badly. I was devastated by the loss of my friend. I loved him, and he’d repeatedly asked me to officiate his funeral. Yet, I knew the call asking me to help mourners celebrate his life would not come. My friend was...
Living the Advent: Prepare

Living the Advent: Prepare

Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12 “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.'” (Matt. 3:3) When my grandparents retired, they moved to a mobile home on a big...