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Transition, Transformation and Transfiguration Transfiguration Pastor Mitch Coggin February 11, 2024 Last Epiphany Today we are standing in a doorway. Ahead of us is the season of Lent. We will be reminded to courageously look deep within and see ourselves as broken and flawed. Transfiguration Sunday and the approaching season of Lent provide an opportunity… Continue reading Transition, Transformationand Transfiguration

Wait: Not your normal 4 letter word! Epiphany Pastor Mitch Coggin February 4, 2024 Epiphany 5B Do you remember the movie Chariots of Fire that told the story of Scottish athlete and missionary Eric Liddell. Today’s Old Testament reading from Isaiah 40 was the passage Liddell read when he preached at the Scots Kirk in… Continue reading Wait: Not your normal 4 letter word!

When LIfe is Interrupted Epiphany Pastor Mitch Coggin January 28, 2024 Epiphany 4B Where is God this morning? What is God doing? Is God as absent, as uninvolved as we sometimes feel? Do we often find ourselves surprised by unexpected thoughts or feelings that, upon closer explanation, could only be described as God’s touch or… Continue reading When LIfe is Interrupted

Encountering Grace Epiphany Pastor Mitch Coggin January 21, 2024 Epiphany 3B Have you ever thought about what God is like? Chances are we envision a God that looks and speaks like us. Our image of God is undoubtedly a God that likes what and whom we like and dislikes what and whom we dislike. Today… Continue reading Encountering Grace

When God finds us Under the Fig Tree Epiphany Pastor Mitch Coggin January 14, 2024 Epiphany 2B I first felt God’s call to ministry around the age of ten. I cannot explain the reasons that I felt a pull to the ministry and I told my mother that. What would you do with a young… Continue reading When God finds us under the fig tree

Baptism: A Partnership of Risky Ventures Baptism of Christ Pastor Mitch Coggin January 7, 2024 Baptism of Christ B Last week, I sat beside Reverend Dave Stewart as he shared what he remembered as significant in his life. I heard him articulate that it wasn’t necessarily what he did as a pastor in the church,… Continue reading Baptism: A Partnership of Risky Ventures

The Geography of Love Advent 4B Pastor Mitch Coggin December 24, 2023 Christmas Time In today’s call to worship, we read from Psalm 89, The Message translation: We will never quit telling the story of Your love— how You built the cosmos and guaranteed everything in it. Your love has always been our lives’ foundation,… Continue reading The Geography of Love

Rejoice in the Lord, Always! Advent 3B Pastor Mitch Coggin December 17, 2023 Advent 3B The passage we read from Isaiah 61 is from what is considered Third Isaiah. This follows their exile from Babylon and transformation is on their mind. We clearly see the tension between the reality of our world and the world… Continue reading Rejoice in the Lord, Always!

Reclaiming an Elusive Peace Advent 2B Pastor Mitch Coggin December 10, 2023 Advent 2B I vividly remember Christmas morning a few years ago. When my cell phone rang, I knew that the news would not be good. “Come, now,” was the quiet request. John and Linda lived across the street from the church where I… Continue reading Reclaiming an Elusive Peace

The Myth of Christmas: When Hope Seems Lost Communion Sunday Pastor Mitch Coggin December 3, 2023 Advent 1B Just after this meditation we will sing, “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus.” We will sing the line, “from our sins and fears release us, let us find our rest in thee.” These are challenging words, to consider… Continue reading The Myth of Christmas: When Hope seems lost