by Steven Baines | Mar 21, 2018 | News
Wednesday, March 21 Scripture: Mark 11:1-11 Being a disciple of God isn’t all glory. Imagine, you just devoted your life to Jesus for two to three years, and spent the last nine months travelling through 35 locations en route to what promises to be a glorious return...
by Steven Baines | Mar 20, 2018 | News
Tuesday, March 20 Scripture: Mark 11:1-11 As with most biblical passages, there are so many messages that can be deciphered. One of the commentaries (The Interpreter’s Bible, Volume 7, 1989) that I read suggested that the actions like the colt being untied and taken...
by Michael McMahon | Mar 19, 2018 | Friday Music at Midday, News
With predictions of a winter storm for Tuesday night and Wednesday, and with a performer needing to travel from out of town, we have made the decision to cancel this Friday’s Music at Midday recital. There will be no concert this Friday, March 23, or next...
by Steven Baines | Mar 19, 2018 | News
Sixth Week in Lent The Hour Has Come Monday, March 19 Scripture: Mark 11:1-11 Jesus traveled to Jerusalem knowing the trip would lead to his sacrificial death. Agony and suffering are looming, and yet great joy and celebration surround Jesus. He’s on a death march,...
by Steven Baines | Mar 18, 2018 | News
Sunday, March 18 Note: We asked our writers on Sundays to address the power of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. The Lutheran minister Martin Rinkart arrived in Eilenberg, Saxony, in the seventeenth century. By 1636, war and plague left him, as the town’s only...
by Steven Baines | Mar 17, 2018 | News
An elderly aunt was driving her car, which she had long ago named “Has Been,” as she entered the parking lot with nary an empty space in sight. Just then backup lights indicated the car nearby was readying to leave. But before “Has Been” could be driven into the now...
