For Pride Sunday, Pastor Barbara drew on many sources – – scripture (Galatians 5:1,13-25 and Luke 9:56-62 ), her childhood love of basketball, the folk arts of the Pennsylvania German tradition and the ongoing saga of LGBTQ rights – – to find the essential, universal rule of all great struggles: Always take the long view…
Drawing on two stories from scripture of people who felt small and unseen (1 Kings 19:1 – 15a and Luke 6:26-9) Pastor Barbara explores the idea of unearned grace, as expressed in the promise “God comes anyway.”
Scripture: Genesis 11:1-9, Acts 2, 1-21 This was Pentecost, and Pastor Barbara tried to put the familiar story of many languages and tongues of fire into its deeper context as part of an ancient prophetic arc that starts with the Tower of Babel and the scattering of the nations.
On the Sunday before Pentecost Pastor Barbara shared her long-standing fascination with the unnamed, enslaved female fortune-teller (in Acts 16: 16-34) whose actions precipitated one of the important episodes in the first days of the church. This was also only 5 days after the shooting tragedy in Uvalde TX, and Barbara addressed that too, reading…
In her first sermon as our new Pastor, Rev. Peronteau takes a deep dive into the central issue of this season: the nature of Grace, as promised in Easter. Scripture: Revelation 21:9-10; 21:22 – 22:5 and John 5:1 – 9