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"As we prepare for Sunday Worship, here is some wisdom from Richard Rohr: 'When you set yourself up to think you deserve, expect, or need something to happen, you are setting yourself up for constant unhappiness and a final inability to enjoy or at least allow what is going to happen anyway.' We’ll be talking about the truth: that we are not in control." - Pastor Mac

"Here is a thought from Evelyn Underhill: 'The spiritual life does not mean a mere cultivation of one’s own soul, poking about our interior life with a torch. It is also intensely social; for it is a life shared with all others…Only when we recognize all this, and act on it, are we fully awake and taking our place in the connectedness of the spiritual realm.” So glad to be in community on this journey! - Pastor Mac

This Sunday we begin our sermon series on "The Five Truths"

"Greetings! This Sunday we begin a spiritual journey reflecting on what Matthew 6:21 means for us personally and communally as a church. We hope you’ll come on this journey of reflection. Let us start by praying, “Spirit, open my heart.”

"I’m sure all of us can hear in our mind's eye a child saying, 'That’s not fair! My sister got three scoops of ice cream and I got two!' This Sunday we deal with the topic of fairness through Matthew 20:1-16.   Our hymnal says, 'Christians meet for worship on the first day of the week, the day Christ Jesus rose from the dead.'  May we too be risen from the deadening things in our lives through the act of worship by the power of the Spirit." - Pastor Mac

"We will look at Jonah chapter 1 and the question, “Will you pray for and seek to serve the people with imagination?” Our Presbyterian Directory of Worship reminds us: 'God acts with grace; we respond with gratitude. God claims us as beloved children;'" - Pastor Mac

"Happy Labor Day Weekend! This Sunday in worship we will continue our sermon series on the following question, Will you pray for and seek to serve the people with energy, imagination, intelligence and love? Our focus is on love this week. Take time to read 1 Corinthians 13:1-13. I find it particularly powerful in our culturally divisive times. See you in worship!" - Pastor Mac

"Come join in community this Sunday. We're exploring what it means to find our unity in being one with Christ, even with all our different gifts, uniqueness, and callings." - Pastor Becca

"This Sunday we begin a four week worship series on four words and their relationship to our Christian discipleship: Energy, Imagination, Intelligence and Love. See you Sunday!" - Pastor Mac

"We dabble in the same theme our high schoolers thought about when they were on retreat in North Carolina last week: Wonder & Wander. Our scripture text is from Exodus 16:13-26: God’s miraculous provision for the Israelites as they wandered in the wilderness." - Pastor Mac

Our theme for Sunday’s sermon is vulnerability, part two of the a series on Availability & Vulnerability. - Pastor Mac

"This week I begin a two-part sermon series on Availability & Vulnerability. Our scripture text for Sunday is Exodus 3:1-6, Moses' encounter with the burning bush. This scripture is a window into exploring our availability to God and and each other." - Pastor Mac

"This week's scripture looks like a story about dividing and counting but, if you read closely, there's another thread running underneath it... and it might be the one your own story needs."  - Pastor Becca

"Scottish hymn-writer and minister John L. Bell says, “Whatever else God calls us to, we are called to worship, to do so together, and to do so in the promised company of Jesus Christ.” We look forward to seeing you for Scottish Communion. - Pastor Mac

"We will be looking at Genesis 25:19-34, the birth and growing up years of Jacob and Esau. It’s an understatement to say that there are some familial issues in this story! Whoever says the bible isn’t relatable to real life isn't reading it!"  - Pastor Mac