Song of Songs 2:8-13 This week I watched a movie called The Spectacular Now, a story about a troubled High School student named Sutter: Sutter’s father left when he was young, he has no plans for the future and he doubts if anyone will ever truly love. He suspects that once people truly get to […]
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The Scripture for last Sunday (1 Kings 8:22-30, 40-43) talked about preparing a dwelling place for God. As I read about all the work that the Israelites did to prepare that dwelling place, I found myself thinking about houses and all the work it takes to straighten them up and get them ready for others. […]
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John 6:51-58 Now, to begin with, I just want to recognize that we have been talking about bread a lot these past couple weeks in church. In these conversations, we have remembered that we gather here, every Sunday, because we are hungry. Hungry for connection, for hope, for the knowledge that we are not alone, […]
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This week Gail Beck from Tri-Town Youth Services (and our Community Potluck and Conversation on Youth) called FBC to invite us to volunteer! Details are below. What: Freshmen Transition Day When: Wednesday, September 2nd from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Where: Camp Hazen, Chester Why: Freshman Transition Day is a day filled with activities and […]
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Ephesians 4:25-5:2 The author of Ephesians writes, “So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. Be angry but do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your anger.” I can only imagine that the author is writing these […]
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John 6:1-21 The text today begins with a group of people searching for Jesus. When we think of search parties, we might imagine people comb through the wilderness shouting, “Jesus, Jesus, where are you?” And perhaps these people literally did that. But on a deeper lever, they were searching to know Jesus on the deeper […]
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