The Second Edition Book Club meets monthly on a Sunday afternoon, generally the second Sunday. Contact Fred Schuh, Carol Howe, or Peggy Pinckney for more information.
JUNE SELECTION:
Discussion on Sunday, June 8th, 3 p.m. at Peggy’s home
Sunday Bulletin - February 9
THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME
“Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”
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Plain Talk
Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.
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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, February 9, 2025
Dear Friends in Jesus –
The Gospel writers Matthew and Luke each report significant sermons by Jesus – sermons that convey, very simply, the tenants of his ministry. The Sermon on the Mount and the Sermon on the Plain speak to the topsy-turvy nature of our lives in following the way of Jesus. Conditions of poverty, grief, suffering, and insult are to be born knowing that there is plenty, joy, comfort, and favor in a life of steadfast dedication in bearing the mysteries of God.
We are stewards under orders.
What we get to do!
In anticipation,
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Sunday Bulletin - February 2
THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME
“Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”
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In Your Face
Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.
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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, February 2, 2025
Dear Friends in Jesus –
Jesus has spent thirty years in his hometown of Nazareth when he is nudged by the Spirit to strike out and join others in their pilgrimage to be baptized by his cousin John.
He emerges from the water and the heavens open. He is affirmed by a voice from heaven, then driven into the wilderness where he is challenged and tempted, emerging again forty days later battle tested – and ready to launch his work teaching and healing, offering a new message. What better place than the hometown temple! Jesus brings his defining message – that yes, he has come in fulfillment of the ancient texts, but for all the people.
Shocking, dangerous, radical love.
Come this Sunday and experience this cosmic power. Bring a friend (and some chili!)
In anticipation,
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Sunday Bulletin - January 26
THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME
“Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”
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What's My Line?
Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.
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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, January 26, 2025
Identities are interesting claims to make. Have you ever thought about all the ways we are named and identified in today’s ever-changing landscape? We have family names, personal names, social security numbers, student ID numbers, phone numbers, emails, avatars, and the list goes on and on. I remember moving from SC to Washington, DC in the late 1990’s and the personal conversations I learned from the South switched from, “Where are you from?” to the DC proper, “What do you do?” I guess in DC it was more important to know what you did for a living than to know your family lineage.
Maybe it’s true the often quoted saying, “The more things change; the more things stay the same.” In Sunday’s lectionary text from the Gospel of Luke, Jesus finds himself at the beginning of his ministry having to answer some of those same questions: “What is your purpose here? Aren’t you Joseph’s child? Who and whose are you? “
Cress is attending a funeral in New York this weekend and has asked me to preach on Sunday. We are now directly in the season of Epiphany and there is much to discern in Luke 4 as Jesus returns home to Nazareth to begin his ministry and reintroduce himself. How will we receive and respond to his message? Maybe as confused and stunned as his hometown was in the first century?
Hope to see you Sunday,
Steven
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Chili-Cook Off
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We need your help to make this year's chili cook-off a delicious success!
A chili cook-off hosted by the deacons will be held in the Fellowship Hall on February 2, 2025 after 10:30 a.m. worship.
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Sunday Bulletin - January 19
THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME
“Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”
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Are you looking for a church home where you can make a difference for the God we serve? Where you belong and where you will be known, nurtured, challenged? We welcome you and invite you to spend some time with us.
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Beloved
Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.
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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, January 19, 2025
Dear Friends in Jesus –
"The end of nonviolent action is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the Beloved Community.”- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
Last week we saw Jesus (whose time had come) embark on his life’s work.
His first move was to accompany others to the Jordan to his cousin John, to join the holy and the hoi polloi shoulder to shoulder in the muddy waters to be baptized.
The heavens opened, the Holy Spirit settled on him as a dove and a voice declared him beloved. He was then led (others say driven) into the wilderness where his humanity was attacked - tempted, as we are.
His spiritual conditioning proved as strong as his resilient spirit.
A lesson for today, tomorrow and the days ahead.
Though some may be tempted to gloat, or rend their garments, or recede from the tensions, disillusionment and seeming impossibility of world and national narratives, our Jesus models our struggles leading to inevitable victory for the beloved of Jesus God.
Dress warm. Remember your umbrella. Come share in the baptism of Crevon Brown, Sr. and welcome him and Tina Murphy, Patricia Toately Blake, and Susan Lovell home.
In great anticipation –
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Sunday Bulletin - January 12
THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME
“Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”
LET US KNOW YOU WORSHIPED WITH US TODAY - If you’re a visitor, online or in person, and would like more information please feel free to fill out a card or email Pastor Cress.
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Are you looking for a church home where you can make a difference for the God we serve? Where you belong and where you will be known, nurtured, challenged? We welcome you and invite you to spend some time with us.
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He Gets It
Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.
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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, January 12, 2025
Dear Friends in Jesus –
The commentator Barclay writes: "For thirty years Jesus had waited in Nazareth, faithfully performing the simple duties of the home and of the carpenter's shop. All the time he [must have sensed that a task was waiting.] The success of any undertaking is determined by the wisdom with which the moment to embark is chosen. Jesus must have waited for the hour to strike, for the moment to come, for the summons to sound. And when John emerged Jesus knew that the time had arrived.”
This Sunday we engage the texts, imagine the impact on the community then and now. Why was Jesus baptized?
Invite someone you know or want to and share the mystery of God’s incarnation positioned for God’s love.
In anticipation –
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Epiphany Sunday Bulletin - January 5
THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME
“Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”
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Epiphany Sunday
Sunday morning worship at 10:30 a.m.
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SERMON SNAPSHOT: Sunday, January 5, 2025
Dear Friends in Jesus –
Do any of you have phrases that seem to appear in response to certain situations? Or actions or feelings that seem to be recurrent?
At the new year it seems that I default, as many of you may know, to the image of Janus. Janus was among the pantheon of gods – Jupiter, Pluto, Apollo, Mars – that the ancient Romans worshiped. He was thought to keep the gate of heaven. And so he was the god of gates and doors, beginnings and endings; portrayed as having a double-faced head, each face looking in an opposite direction.
This year I also think about the Masks of Comedy and Tragedy – images diametrically opposite but that encompass as well the margins and contain the bulk of the experiences of our lives. So here at the beginning of this new year 2025, I again take the opportunity to look in back on the past year and to state why it is that I believe we, with our ups and downs, may look forward to 2025 informed, conditioned, encouraged and poised for what’s next.
Will it be challenging? Sure. Will it be joyful and exhilarating? It may be. And it will be if we keep our sights on the one whose name we would bear – Jesus!
Come this Sunday for communion and for strengthening, positioned for God’s grace and experiencing Jesus. It’s all good!
In great anticipation –
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Sunday Bulletin - December 29
THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME
“Meeting people at their point of need, Inviting all into a dynamic relationship with Jesus”
LET US KNOW YOU WORSHIPED WITH US TODAY - If you’re a visitor, online or in person, and would like more information please feel free to fill out a card or email Pastor Cress.
INFORMATION & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Are you looking for a church home where you can make a difference for the God we serve? Where you belong and where you will be known, nurtured, challenged? We welcome you and invite you to spend some time with us.
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