I am taking a moment, during my move-in to my new office, to express my heartfelt gratitude for being called as your next Pastor with such overwhelming favor! This week as I unpack I feel very blessed to pause every so often and read through the box of “WELCOME” greeting cards that you prepared for… Read More »
We’re Doing This Again – A Change of Address
We’ve done this before – we can do this again. This will be the second time I will be ending a tenure of being your pastor during a time of transition. We know how this works. Sunday there will be a “change of address” for any thoughts coming from this “Young”. I started writing mid-week… Read More »
Wear Red
This coming Sunday, September 7th, is “Wear Red Again” Sunday. No, that is not a new holiday in the church calendar. It will be our way to dedicate the new RED altar paraments. This particular set of paraments is only used once a year, on Pentecost Sunday. Although some churches in the reformed tradition have… Read More »
Let the little children come to me
Matthew 19:14 New International Version 14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Greenbelt Community Church UCC has an opportunity to make space for the little children to be in Jesus’ presence. The Board of Worship and Christian Education has created… Read More »
A Time of Hope and Promise
One of my favorite hymns was written by Natalie Sleeth. She titled it “Hymn of Promise.” In the bulb there is a flower; in the seed, an apple tree; in cocoons, a hidden promise; butterflies will soon be free! In the cold and snow of winter there’s a spring that waits to be, unrevealed until… Read More »
Praying the Psalms
One of the spiritual practices for times of trouble, and for times of joy, although times of trouble seem to be more common, is “praying the Psalms”. Somewhere in my library of books I have a small volume by that name written by the noted biblical scholar and theologian, the recently deceased Walter Brueggemann. The… Read More »
Showers of Blessings – Abundant Grace
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all we can ask or think, according to the power at work within us. Ephesians 3:20 One of our family traditions is a few days in the mountains of West Virginia at a place called… Read More »
Righteous Violence?
In the scripture reading for this past Sunday, we were confronted with an episode of violence. The Prophet Elijah had directed the prophets of the god Baal be killed. Although not named as such in the biblical record, this was what was called the Wadi Kishon Massacre and the numbers killed (to prevent an evil… Read More »
Lightbearers to the World
Show your colors in June at Greenbelt Community Church! The AI assistance statement you get when you look up “light spectrum” reads: The visible light spectrum is the segment of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can view. More simply, this range of wavelength is called visible light. Typically, the human eye can… Read More »
Be Gentle
It is time for my annual message to people: Be gentle with each other this weekend. Sunday is Mother’s Day, and that day does not mean a Hallmark moment for everyone. Allow your friends and relatives and members of your church and associations deal with this day as they need. Certainly, there are many of… Read More »
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