Dear Church, Summer is a gorgeous time here in NE Ohio where all is green. As the poet Joe Pintauro wrote, “Green is a God color.” Summer is also a very busy time for pastors. We’re busy planning for the fall, and we have a lot of cool things to look forward to! Rev’d… Read More »
December 25, 2022 Christmas Day
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December 24, 2022 Christmas Eve 9:00 pm
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January 2022 Pastor’s Corner
I’ll structure this in our Herrmann Brain Dominance (from our Project Worship Series) as a reminder and as a way to cover all the ways of communication. Here we go! YELLOW (Idea/why): The idea of this season is: More Light and Truth. We’ll talk about the importance of the bible. We’ll do a little Christian… Read More »
Beatitudes Go To The Movies! Worship Series
Jesus gave us some blockbuster teachings. They’ve been a hit ever since they came out. The worship team has missed going to the theatre, so we’ll decorate the building like a movie theatre! They have chosen eight films – from classics to recent award-winners – to gain a better understanding of each of the eight… Read More »
Summer Vespers
Under the leadership of Matt Yates and Maureen Walker, we’ve gathered a team of folks who are in the medical field. Suzanne Kanner, Paul DeSario, Stephanie Young, and Rob Wilder. They will draft policies, determine tasks, and staff teams to carry out the tasks to keep us safe during the pandemic. Because the pandemic is… Read More »
A Vision of the Future
My music folk were hanging and planning some future worship when our choir director Jim asked, “So… what’s like the future of the church? Where are you taking us?” Sometimes the words just aren’t there. That’s why we invented art! The picture on the left comes from the street artist Banksy. I love this picture.… Read More »
RE: Church
This fall we will have a new educational series! Regarding: Church! What is this thing called church? Why is our worship structured the way it is? We will take some time and delve into these questions. Why? To remind us of why the liturgy is the way it is and help us go deeper into our… Read More »
Experiments and Failure
We had a baptism on July 1. It was awesome and epic and sacred! Yet something didn’t sit right. It had nothing to do with the family, the practice of baptism, or how we as the church view the sacrament. It had to do with me. Let me explain. I am trying to figure out… Read More »
Bad Farming
Delivered on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 as part of the Medina Ministerial Association ecumenical worship. I’ve been around growing things long enough to know what’s good practice and what’s not. I know enough to be dangerous. I know that today’s parable is bad farming. This sower is just sloppy. He didn’t prepare the ground. There’s… Read More »
