“God’s Servants” will again be at work in the community this summer as First Church gears up for TRANSFORM, which will run Aug. 5 through Aug. 9. TRANSFORM, based at First Church on Market Street, is a “city-wide mission experience where we seek to serve those in need, build ...
This is a great time of the year with folks out and about enjoying our surroundings. We see people we might not have seen over the winter, and we meet those new to our community. It is also a time of awareness as our interactions with one another are more on display. Words spoken in the ...
The Gospels end with Jesus Christ commissioning the disciples to share worldwide the “Good News” about His life, death, burial, and resurrection. Christ promised that He would be with them until the end of the age. As we learn in Acts, the disciples, emboldened by the Spirit, indeed ...
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hears my voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me” (Revelations 3:20 KJV). Jesus is inviting us to have an intimate relationship with him. Knowing that Jesus wants to eat a meal and have ...
LONDON — Even as he prepared to embark for the battlefields of Normandy, Pvt. Mervyn Kersh was summoned by his commanding officer and threatened with arrest. Why, the officer demanded, had Kersh refused to eat his army rations of canned beef and vegetables, subsisting only on canned ...
In Sunday’s Gospel Lesson, we find Jesus and the Pharisees discussing Jesus and his followers disregard of the Sabbath, in the eyes of the Pharisees. When the law of Moses was given, the Sabbath was to be a day observed forever. The law stated that you were only to rest or worship and never ...
