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A Life Worth Living: What Are We Doing Here?
Jarrett McLaughlin A Life Worth Living: What Are We Doing Here? January 12, 2025 1 Kings 19:1-13 Cold Open: I have this weird affinity for both of the Voyager Space Probes. They launched respectively on August 20th and September 5th 1977 - mere months before I...
Life Worth Living: Finding your Life
Meg Peery McLaughlin Life Worth Living: Finding your Life January 5, 2025 John 12: 20-26 Prayer of Illumination We are looking for life, O God. Your word is a lamp unto our feet And a light unto our path. Speak, we are listening. Amen. 20 Now among those who went up...
Christmas Eve
Meg Peery McLaughlin December 24, 2024 Luke 2: 1-20 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 All went to their own...
A Weary World Rejoices: “and the soul knew its worth”
Jarrett McLaughlin A Weary World Rejoices: “and the soul knew its worth” Luke 1:39-56 December 22, 2024 Cold Open: The force that attracts any two objects with mass toward one another – this is a simplistic definition of gravity as articulated by Isaac Newton. Another...
A Weary World Rejoices: His Law is Love and His Gospel is Peace
Meg Peery McLaughlin A Weary World Rejoices: His Law is Love and His Gospel is Peace December 15, 2024 Luke 3: 1-14, 18 Prayer of Illumination Speak to us, Lord. Speak to us in the waiting, the watching, the hoping, the longing. Speak to us by your Word in these...
A Weary World Rejoices
Hadley Kifner “A Weary World Rejoices” December 1, 2024 Isaiah 9:2-7 PREPARATION FOR THE READING Blessed Thanksgiving Sunday to you… …And Happy New Year! Today is Dec. 1 and the first day of Advent. “According to the church calendar, the first day of Advent is...
Truth in Order to Goodness
Jarrett McLaughlin “Truth in Order to Goodness” November 24, 2024 John 18:28-38 Cold Open: John Colcough (Col-cuff) was nearing the end of his life, but he had something that he needed to share – a secret that he needed to tell. His neighbor, Macky Alston, was...
All Together Now
Nancy Myer “All Together Now” November 17, 2024 Hebrews 10:15-25 Hebrews 10:15-25 15And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying, 16 ‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and...
Mind Your Business
Meg Peery McLaughlin Mind Your Business November 10, 2024 Luke 2: 41-52 I chose our scripture for this Sunday earlier this Fall. Looking at the church calendar only, I chose the story of Jesus coming into his adulthood in Luke chapter 2 with Presbyterian Campus...