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Bleak Mid-Winter Short days, long cold nights, and a hazy outlook; so what is there to look forward to in winter?  As I write this, we are into the second Saturday in a row of having a snowstorm that will affect attendance on Sunday.  For me it is always somewhat depressing to work hard on … [Read more…]

I wanted to share these important thoughts with you from Rev. Dotson as we enter a new year.  Pastor Kevin SEE ALL THE PEOPLE                  Piety, Not Anxiety                      June 06, 2018 Some of the statistics about churches are enough to make us really, really downhearted: Fewer … [Read more…]

Stewardship Fall is traditionally harvest time in rural America.  It is the season when farmers reap the fruit of their labors.  It is also traditionally the time when Christians reflect on their stewardship and pray about how they might be even better stewards in the coming year of all that God has entrusted them with. … [Read more…]

NEXT STEPS                    In our Christian walk there are always next steps.  The only question is in what direction those next steps will be?  During my many hikes on the Appalachian Trail one of the lessons I learned was that when you get exhausted, when you think that you can’t go on, sometimes the best … [Read more…]

Stewardship “There are three conversions necessary: the conversion of the heart, the mind and the purse. Of these three, it may well be that we moderns find the conversion of the purse the most difficult.” Martin Luther Our Stewardship Team reminds us that Christian stewardship is about using our time, talents, and treasure effectively for … [Read more…]

Grace:  The Unmerited Favor of God Each Sunday during August I spoke on the amazing free gift of God’s Grace.  For this article, I wanted to review what I hope we have all learned about that gift of Grace. We know that God’s unmerited, free, and spontaneous love for all of humankind was revealed and … [Read more…]