Renewing and Reconnecting

Good afternoon, friends. This is Pastor Don. Fall is such a striking and stunningly beautiful time of the year! We all watch in amazement as the leaves on the various trees around us begin to put on this display of colors that daily paint and repaint the landscape...
Attitude of Gratitude

Attitude of Gratitude

November 19, 2023 Scripture Reading: Thessalonians 5:12-24 Before you ask, yes I do know that Thanksgiving is next week and not this coming week but I got a special dispensation to talk about gratitude out of order. I can defend it because we’re having our...

This is the Way

Good afternoon, friends. This is Pastor Don. I’m in the middle of a captivating book called Solito which means “Alone.” It is the true story of a 9 year-old boy named Javier who has to leave his grandparents home in El Salvadore to make a 3000 mile journey to...

The Meeting Place

November 5, 2023Scripture Reading: Exodus 33:1-11 This is probably shaping up to be my last sermon on the early stories of our faith from Genesis and Exodus. In one way, we are leaving these Israelites at a very fragile part of their journey and development as Beloved...
First Place

First Place

October 22, 2023 Scripture Reading: Exodus 32:1-14What is it with us and rules? Maybe it’s a thing in the United States that we don’t want to be told what to do? Maybe we feel confined by rules? Maybe we had too many or too strict an enforcement regiment when we were...