Faithful Christians in Life’s Tragic Gaps III : Doing our great work when the bills need to be paid

Preached by Winton Boyd on September 23rd, 2007 Text: Matthew 6 (see end of sermon) As a young parent with growing children we faced one of life’s daily dilemmas, and the source of many great family squabbles. “Who has to sit in the middle of the back seat of the car between their two siblings.” [...]

Faithful Christians in Lifes Tragic Gaps II: Creating Community as We Lock the Doors At Night

Preached by Winton Boyd on September 16th, 2007 Text: Acts 5 One of our pleasures and sorrows as parents has been taking our oldest son to college. As Tammy and I took him up for his second year, it was fun to think back to his first year. Like many students, he did not know [...]

Faithful Christians in Life’s Tragic Gaps

Preached by Winton Boyd on September 9, 2007 Several years ago, I was visiting a retired pastor who was dying in the hospital. He was a sweet, generous, and caring man. For a number of years, we both had shared the struggle of Alzheimer’s – he with his wife, and me with my mother. In [...]

Some thoughts about our new Sunday School schedule

On September 9th, Sunday School for children through 6th grade resumes at 9:00 a.m.  These reflections are from our Interim Pastor for Children and Youth and Families, the Rev. Tammy Martens. A Wonderful Discovery: The Way of the Child “In helping the child’s religious life, far from imposing something that is foreign to him, we [...]