Regret and Resolve

The story of Noah and the Great Flood is not just for children–though we all do like the idea of rainbows, boats, sets of animals and such. For grown-ups, this is a profound story about the depth of human sin and the matching depth of God’s anguish.  The layers of the story are deep; worth [...]

Holy Week – Easter 2012

WHO IS CHANGED?

The Transfiguration of our Lord reading from Mark 9:2-9 (Sunday Feb. 19) is a story of change. Transfiguration: a radical transformation of figure or appearance; metamorphosis.   The story(s) from the gospels of Matthew (17:1-9), Mark (9:1-9), and Luke (9:28-36) capture the attention of Peter, James and John as Jesus is transfigured before their eyes on the [...]

Are You Ready?

Word Search Kind of Faith

Have you ever attempted a Word Search puzzle? Simple word searches have a list of words at the bottom and then the goal is to locate those words among the many extra letters arranged in a grid.  Sometimes words in word searches will be vertically hidden, sometimes horizontally, sometimes diagonally. The hardest words to find are always the [...]

Febuary Header Contest

It’s February and you know that that means… a new photo on the blog header!  Read the instructions at right to play along in the contest and best of luck!

Pacing

Living with boys has given us the opportunity of hands-on learning with remote control cars. The scenario goes like this: open car package (delightful part) dig around house to find batteries (boring part) get battery case on car unscrewed (long part) place batteries and go outside (exciting part) short instruction session (boring part again) take [...]

February 2012 Calendar Posted

Whoa! It’s February already! Already!? The church calendar for this month is posted.  Click the green tab, above, to view (and print, if you’d like).  

The Lasting Impact of Quilting

For the next few months, every Monday (all day), we have a group of dedicated mission quilters.  They do phenomenal work with scraps, castoffs, and abandoned fabric, and many of them work year-round to prepare tops for quilting in the spring.  It’s pretty cool and if you have a chance, stop by some Monday and [...]