For those of us whose faith isn’t always rock steady, whose spiritual journey is full of ups and downs, by which I guess I mean all of us, Peter is our example and our hope. Just last Sunday, we heard Jesus tell Peter he had received a revelation from God, was the rock on which…
On Sunday the August 24th we were privileged to have the Rev. Bruce Torrey celebrate with us at both services and talk about the work of Food for the Poor, which provides food, housing and other assistance to the neediest people in the Caribbean and Latin America.
In the reading from Genesis, the soap opera of the descendants of Abraham continues. Joseph, condemned to slavery in Egypt by his envious brothers, becomes Pharaoh’s chief of staff. When famine strikes the land, his brothers are forced to ask for help from Pharaoh, making an awful choice between slavery and starvation. And are they…
We’ve been reading the saga of Abraham and his descendants all summer long, but I’ve only addressed it from the pulpit once, when we heard the story of the binding of Isaac. With Joseph’s story we’re now at the fourth generation of this most famous of dysfunctional families. Because some of you haven’t been here…
To be honest, I had intended to talk about Jacob this Sunday. We’ve been reading the story of Jacob for a few weeks now, and it seemed like about time that we reflected on what we’ve been reading, but when we received the urgent request from Mount Airy Net to replenish the shelves of the…