Carol Circle October 4
We will meet Monday, October 4 at 6:00pm in the Fellowship Hall for a potluck dinner. Please bring a dish to share. After dinner there will time for fellowship, devotions and sharing any prayer re-quest. All are welcome.
We will meet Monday, October 4 at 6:00pm in the Fellowship Hall for a potluck dinner. Please bring a dish to share. After dinner there will time for fellowship, devotions and sharing any prayer re-quest. All are welcome.
I hope you will be able, in a few weeks, to enjoy a happy Thanksgiving, passing the turkey and mashed potatoes around a table filled with loved ones and rejoicing together in the good things of life with hearts full of gratitude and praise. I hope that for each of us, but I think we…
Like some of you, I did not grow up in a Covenant church. I have no Swedish blood in me, and as far as I can remember, I had only visited one Covenant church before beginning my seminary education. My family attended Presbyterian churches during my childhood, but I had some theological reservations about serving…
Each Sunday as I introduce the offering, I read a short passage of scripture about giving or about God’s generosity toward us. I do this for two reasons. First, the Bible has a lot to say about how we manage and use financial resources, and we should be motivated to give by God’s word. Second,…
Philippians 3:12-16 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting…
We find ourselves squarely in the middle of the most contentious political season in recent history, with the election just two months away and divisive rhetoric boiling over. Meanwhile, churches across the nation are struggling to maintain close fellowship amid the pandemic that has kept many away from friends and church family for months on…
What is life all about? What should matter most to us? How do we know what things are good and what are not good? These questions run through the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes just as they run through our minds from time to time. During October, I will preach from this enigmatic book of…