A Time for Healing and Wholeness

This morning as we consider what healing we need – individually and communally – I wonder what we can learn from our readings that might help us see the gift of lamenting pain, hearing promise and receiving healing. The Book of Lamentations is five poems that over and...

Pastor’s Message: July 4, 2025

A MESSAGE FROM REV. KAREN KINNEY: IN THE MIDST OF PAINFUL TIMES This Sunday, July 6, our worship will be a Service of Healing and Wholeness, which is a time that helps us name our need for healing and rely on the Holy Spirit’s power to bring us to a state of...

Memories of Pain and Promise

We are going to need to set some context this morning since we have skipped ahead in the Book of Jeremiah. Ten chapters before where we are today, Jeremiah’s truth to power speaking has gotten him in a boatload of trouble, and he is put on trial for his life. Though...

Pastor’s Message: June 27, 2025

A MESSAGE FROM REV. KAREN KINNEY: IN THE MIDST OF PAINFUL TIMES Grace and peace to you, As I mentioned this past week, on Sunday, July 6, our worship will be a Service of Healing and Wholeness. Let me explain as I saw a lot of “what is that” looks! A Service of...

The Potter, The Clay, The Frustration!!

Decades ago in college I took an art class that included a session in the pottery studio. Let’s just say that clay, a potter’s wheel and I did not get along. It was dirty, messy and all I produced was a blob of clay. I couldn’t shape it to save my life. It was without...