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.  The Gospels give us only a glimpse of Jesus’ early years, but from what happens later we can suppose that his hidden years were spent “forming the heart” he operated out of in his preaching and healing work. …

Pastor’s Notes

“Laetare” is this name of this fourth week of Lent. Joy at the middle of Lent?  Really?  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.  It is…