Pastor’s Notes

A Sunday school teacher had just finished telling her third graders about how Jesus was crucified and placed in a tomb with a great stone sealing the opening. Then, wanting to share the excitement of the resurrection, she asked: “And what do you think…

Pastor’s Notes

Our Lent began with Valentines Day.Ā  The Gospels give us only a glimpse of Jesusā€™ early years, but from what happens later we can suppose that his hidden years were spent ā€œforming the heartā€ he operated out of in his preaching and healing work.Ā …

Pastor’s Notes

ā€œLaetareā€ is this name of this fourth week of Lent. Joy at the middle of Lent? Ā Really? Ā The cross of Jesus invites us to remember that salvation is more than a theory, and it often has nothing to do with physical safety.Ā  It is…