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Tuesday Book Club Update
The Tuesday Evening Book Club meets in the Fireside Room on the second Tuesday of the month from 7 to 8:30pm. The schedule for the coming months is:
January 12: The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
February (no meeting)
March 9: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
April 13: The American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
May 11: [...]
Orchards Children’s Services Needs Coats
Orchards Children’s Services is looking for donations of gently used coats. They are in need of children sized coats, but also teenager sized coats as well. (Young adults.) If you would go through your closets and clean out any coats that you wish to get rid of – please bring them to First [...]
The Fall
So what went wrong? That is the question that should be asked by everyone who reads the first two chapters of Genesis. As we left the story last week we were offered two very different, yet very convergent pictures of creation. God created all that is, including humanity, and declared it to [...]
It All Begins at Creation
It all begins at creation. The story we have come to know as the Bible begins its long journey in a two chapter account of creation. Chapter one is a marvelous poetic description of God powerfully “speaking” creation into being. The culmination of this creating is the making of human beings [...]
7:00am Bible Study Community
The 7:00am Bible Study Community meets in 141-142 from 7:00am to 8:am on Tuesdays. All are welcome any time. There are no pre-requisites and it is easy to join at any time. John Judson has been meeting regularly with us. Normally we provide hot (regular) coffee and rolls or cookies. The study has just finished [...]
Tuesday 9:00am Bible Study Community
Tuesday 9:00am Bible Study Community meets in E. Library from 9:00am to 10:00am. All are welcome any time. John Judson has been meeting with us regularly. We are now finishing Genesis from Walter Brueggemann’s book and will start Luke about Thanksgiving. No homework is required although most of us use scripture and the text book [...]
Website Updates for the Week of 10/26/09
You can now register for the upcoming Theologian in Residence lecture series online. To register for any or all of Dr. Brueggemann’s lectures on December 4th or 5th, please visit our Guest Theologian page.
First Things for Sunday, November 1st is now available online. Click here to view it online or to print.
The calendar for the [...]
Where Does Vision Come From?
So where does vision come from? Over the past couple of months we have been talking about vision as coming from the churches previous statements and from the Book of Acts (the story of the church in its infancy). While both of those sources offer us insight into what our vision ought to look like [...]
Share Everything
“And all who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need.” Acts 2:44-45.
Robert Fulghum in his poem “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten” lists nineteen learnings which if practiced, he believes, would enrich [...]
How Does Prayer Work?
“And they devoted themselves to the apostle’s teaching and fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer.” Acts 2:42
How does prayer work? It was not a question I was expecting. I was being interviewed by a reporter from the small town newspaper in Pampa, Texas because I was the newest pastor in the city. [...]
