by Rev. Ashley Harness | Oct 14, 2021 | Sermons
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3 This is one of those classic scriptures, right? We all know it even if we have never read the Bible. It’s made its way into our cultural consciousness – at least through music. “To everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Sep 22, 2021 | Sermons
Scripture: Excerpts from Mark 9 It was March 6th when my mom had hip replacement surgery last year. I had just entered my third trimester of pregnancy. And as I sat in the hospital waiting room, I watched a news conference on TV about the first confirmed case of...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Sep 15, 2021 | Sermons
18My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick. 19Hark, the cry of my poor people from far and wide in the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” (“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their foreign idols?”) 20“The harvest...
by Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel | Aug 12, 2021 | Sermons
Scripture: Psalm 139 and excerpt from A Wind in the Door For the past week, I’ve been thinking a lot about the trip that Maggie, Shannon, my mom and I took to Scotland exactly four years ago. We had gone to visit the land of our MacKenzie ancestors and the trip was...
by Rev. Ashley Harness | Jul 28, 2021 | Sermons
Faithful. Committed. Peaceful. Courageous. These are just a few of the words I think about when I think about Elly. And I’ve been thinking about you, Elly, so much since we learned your time alive on this earth is far more limited than any of us were hoping. You are a...
by Beth Ellsworth, Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel | Jun 13, 2021 | Sermons
Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel: When my Grandmother Voelkel died, I got her copy of Psalms/Now with artwork by Sister Corita Kent and translations of the Psalms written by Leslie Brandt. You’ve heard me talk about how important my Grammie, Mary Doyle MacKenzie Unwin,...
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