by Crystal Harris | Feb 18, 2021 | blog
National Drink Wine Day Today is National Drink Wine Day! In our culture today, wine is good any day! It’s a delicious pairing with your favorite meal or dessert, it’s a nice nighttime companion to a good book, or it’s a hobby and if it’s your...
by Crystal Harris | Feb 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
National Marriage Week: Robbie and George Let’s take a look at our Interim Administrative Assistant Robbie and get to know her and George a little better. How long have you been married? 31 years. George and I were married by Rev. Terry Smith at The First...
by Crystal Harris | Feb 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Move Forward “Looking Up During Uncertain Times” A Daily Devotional Text: Mark 6:30-44 International Children’s Bible Scripture Reading: More Than 5,000 People Fed 30 The apostles that Jesus had sent out to preach returned. They gathered around him and told him...
by Crystal Harris | Feb 2, 2021 | blog, Pastoral Prayer
Pastoral Prayer, January 31, 2021 God from the beginning of time, you breathed life into us. From you we received our souls, our being, our bodies. From you we were given freedom, freedom to have desire, freedom of vision, freedom to create and cultivate and build....
by Crystal Harris | Jan 28, 2021 | blog, Uncategorized
Faith Journeys “Looking Up During Uncertain Times” A Daily Devotional Text: Mark 4:1-9 & Mark 4:15-20 International Children’s Bible Scripture Reading: A Story About Planting Seed 4 Another time Jesus began teaching by the lake. A great crowd gathered around...
by Crystal Harris | Jan 26, 2021 | blog, Pastoral Prayer
Pastoral Prayer for January 24, 2021 Let us begin with a time of silent prayer. Let us pray. Always Seeking-God….sometimes we are so much like the prophet Jonah…loving to receive grace and compassion when it is directed toward us….and yet sometimes so reluctant to...
by Crystal Harris | Jan 21, 2021 | blog
Crazy Friendship Looking Up During Uncertain Times” A Daily Devotional Text: Mark 2:2-5 International Children’s Bible Scripture Reading: 2 So many people gathered to hear him preach that the house was full. There was no place to stand, not even outside the door....
by Crystal Harris | Jan 18, 2021 | blog
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bob Livingsto January 18, 2021 With today being the 35th year MLK Day has been commemorated in our nation, I thought I would take a moment to speak to the powerful and lasting legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I grew up...
by Crystal Harris | Jan 16, 2021 | blog, Uncategorized
We go into ceremony to talk with God Text: “When we run out of words, then and only then can God be God. When we have eaten our words until we are sick of them, when nothing we can tell ourselves makes a dent in our hunger, when we are prepared to surrender to the...
by Crystal Harris | Jan 14, 2021 | blog, Uncategorized
Focusing In A Loud World A Daily Devotional Text: Mark 1:35-38 International Children’s Bible Scripture Reading: 35 Early the next morning, Jesus woke and left the house while it was still dark. He went to a place to be alone and pray. 36 Later, Simon and his...
