October 27, 2019: The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. John Bagby
October 20, 2019: The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Mr. Drew Brislin
October 13, 2019: The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice Frazer
Best day/worst day of my church life: When I was eight years old in second grade, I celebrated my first communion. My family was Roman Catholic at the time and in the Catholic Church, you didn’t get to take communion until you had completed First Communion class in second grade. My classmates and I had […]
October 6, 2019: The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. John Bagby
September 29, 2019: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice Frazer
Several years ago before I went to seminary and we still lived in Selma, I was standing in line at Wal-Mart. I had made the mistake of coming on “check day”, the third of the month. The lines were long and many of the people there were buying groceries that would last for a month—bags […]
September 22, 2019: The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. John Bagby
September 15, 2019: The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice Frazer
Too often we read a parable and are immediately tempted to assign all the parts. For instance, in today’s parables of lost things, we are quick to assign Jesus to the role of seeker and ourselves to the roles of the lost sheep or coin. There is nothing necessarily wrong with that, as a matter […]
September 8, 2019: The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. John Bagby
September 1, 2019: The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Drake Whitelaw
August 25, 2019: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice Frazer
We believe faith, and life, is easier when we have rules to live by. Sometimes we find value in those rules and other times we believe them to be unfair, antiquated, or not applicable to our own affairs. For the most part, we think of rules as a means to governing our behavior and allowing […]