As utterly central to being a Christian as Easter is, it is still a very hard concept for children and for many adults if we are honest. Below please find a user friendly guide to discussing the theology of Easter (or not doing so) with your kids. As often is the case, Traci Smith is […]

This coming Sunday’s Sunday School lesson is about courage. We don’t normally think about courage as a form of love because we get lost in the Cowardly Lion’s definition of courage, which is all about the superficial trappings of bravery, rather than the original meaning. Courage comes from the Latin word ‘cor’ and the French […]

Sometimes several different threads come together and if you give them a little tug they become macrame. All the different things I read this morning were like that, the devotion for today from “Inward Work for Outward Living”, Teri Mcdowell Ott for The Presbyterian Outlook was about the fear of loss; the Sunday School lesson […]

Sometimes, the best thing I can do is share something that has been shared with me. The following article comes from Traci Smith’s Treasure Box Tuesday: Guest post by Sarah Aadland, Director of Doing Good Together’s Big-Hearted Families™ Program Our daily routines define our lives. After all, we are what we do day after day. […]

Lent is an odd time for all of us. In the Godly Play tradition it, like Advent, is described as a time of the color purple. Godly Play continues that purple is a royal color and only kings or very wealthy people could wear purple and that it signifies a time of getting ready – […]

As Mary Austin referred to in the 2/6/23 eblast, the Foundational Essay for our study Make Peace talks about the small village called Le Chambon and the people there who hid Jewish families during WWII. “In their story, we encounter other aspects of making peace: asking good questions that bring your character and values to […]

I am NOT a big Elvis fan, so I was VERY surprised to learn that the lyrics that have been bouncing around in my head for the last couple of days were written by none other than the king.  “Before you abuse, criticize and accuse, walk a mile in my shoes.” The rest of the […]

{From Traci Smith’s Treasure Box Tuesday, 1.17.23} Today for productivity Tuesday, I’ll be talking about habits. (yes, again!)  One of the things that feels somewhat “accidental” about studying faith practice is that I’ve also become somewhat of an expert on habits. Perhaps expert is too strong a word, but I’ve learned quite a bit about […]

We Presbyterians have a Book of Confessions which is not a tell all book of all of our bad deeds, it is the first part of our Constitution, and consists of the creeds, cathecisms and confessions that are what we believe or have believed; the second part being the Book of Order which essentially covers […]

I don’t know whether you have noticed the Advent Candles in the western windows of the Sanctuary, but here is a picture of them with the morning sun coming through them. Each Sunday during Advent, members of our church were asked a question that related to the theme for that week of Advent. The first […]