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What a difference it makes to be filled with the Holy Spirit! Easter 4B Pastor Mitch Coggin April 21, 2024 Easter Today’s first two scripture readings deal first of all with the assurance that Jesus is the Good shepherd and that he lays his life down for us, referring to us as his sheep. We… Continue reading What a difference it makes to be filled with the Holy Spirit!

The Elephant in the Room Easter 3B Pastor Mitch Coggin April 14, 2024 Easter Some things are easy to ignore… especially when they are uncomfortable. We may ignore a phone call or avoid an appointment if we aren’t sure what the outcome might be. We often ignore someone that might not look or act like… Continue reading The Elephant in the Room

The Church, United We Stand Easter 2B Pastor Mitch Coggin April 7, 2024 Easter The scriptures we read after Easter reflect the shift from the active ministry of Jesus and the disciples to the ministry of the disciples and the faith community that would become the early church. I want us to explore what the… Continue reading The Church, United We Stand

Good Friday Worship Holy Week Rev. Laura Kavanagh March 29, 2024 Holy Week Prologue So this is love! Brought to this: stretched on a crossbar. It would make a grown person cry, if there were any tears left. Brought to this, because you believed too much in what love could do, because you stood alone… Continue reading Good Friday

Terror or Trust: the focus is up to you! Palm Sunday Pastor Mitch Coggin March, 24 2024 Holy Week Palm or Passion Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. There are two separate readings in today’s lectionary; one for the liturgy of the Palms and one for the Liturgy of the Passion. Palm Sunday is… Continue reading Terror or Trust: the focus is up to you!

An Inconvenient Obedience 5th Sunday of Lent Pastor Mitch Coggin March 17, 2024 Lent One of my favorite folk singers, Carrie Newcomer, has a song that seems to call our attention to what is going on around us right now, both the promise of Spring and the message of Easter. The chorus goes like this:… Continue reading An Inconvenient Obedience

Salt & Light 4th Sunday of Lent Rev. Cathy Victor March 10, 2024 Lent Popcorn, French fries and eggs. These are things that I see as requiring salt. I know that sometimes we are told to cut back on our salt intake, but if possible these are items that have to be worked around in… Continue reading Salt & Light 

Where is Jesus? Third Sunday of Lent Pastor Mitch Coggin March 3, 2024 Lent Our scripture passage this morning is from the gospel of John. We encounter Jesus at the Pool of Israel, at the scene of a miraculous healing of a man crippled for 38 years. As we begin, it’s helpful to be reminded… Continue reading Where is Jesus?

A Future with Possibility … and Loss! 2 Sunday of Lent Pastor Mitch Coggin February 25, 2024 Lent On this second Sunday of Lent, we realize that trust is not an easy matter. We hold ourselves back, we wait to see, we long for proof. Today we listen to the ancient stories that become our… Continue reading A Future with Possibility … and Loss!

40 Days of Fresh Starts First Sunday of Lent Pastor Mitch Coggin February 18, 2024 Lent What would you do if you were God? And you saw the world you had made had turned toward violence toward one another and the earth? The book of Genesis contains the old, old stories of our faith, the… Continue reading 40 Days of Fresh Starts