Pastor’s Message
Pastor’s Message February 2026 – “Are We Just Making Noise?”
What is worship that pleases God? The prophet Amos reminds us that the kind of worship God accepts and delights in, is not just when we sing, pray, listen to the sermon and even kneel in worship at home or in church on Sundays or days set aside to offer our praise and thanks to […]
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A Silence that Speaks By Rev. Dr. Carla A. Romarate-Knipel “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.” – […]
Read More....Pastor’s Message – November 2025
“Stewarding Faith: Reflections on the Communion of Saints, Civic Duty, Thanksgiving and Advent” By Rev. Dr. Carla A. Romarate-Knipel “O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever.” – Psalm 107:1, NRSV “… Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I […]
Read More....Pastor’s Message – October 2025
“Be Strong and Courageous:” : A Call to Faithfulness in Doing God’s Mission“ – By Rev. Dr. Carla A. Romarate-Knipel Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the Lord swore to their ancestors to give them, and […]
Read More....Pastor’s Message – September 2025
“Honoring the Old, Embracing the New” By Rev. Dr. Carla A. Romarate-Knipel “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone, the new is here!” – 2 Corinthians 5:17 “I think accepting change is quite as important as defending the past.” – Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, Downton Abbey […]
Read More....Pastor’s Message – July and August 2025
“Wine, Weddings and Jesus” By Rev. Dr. Carla Romarate-Knipel “9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and […]
Read More....Pastor’s Message – June 2025
“Following the Good Shepherd in a Time of Need” The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley […]
Read More....Pastor’s Message – May 2025
“God Loves Us Like a Mother, too!” “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” – 1 John 4:7-8 In May, the second Sunday is designated as Mother’s […]
Read More....Pastor’s Message – April 2025
“Go and Tell! Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.” – Matthew 28:10 “Jesus has left the building and the church has decided to follow Him.” – Rev. Traci Blackman, words on her church’s online picture It has been […]
Read More....Pastor’s Message – March 2025
“Meeting God in the Silence” He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and […]
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