By Sheri Hostetler Psalm 23, Acts 9:36-43 Our story from Acts takes place in Joppa, a coastal town about 35 miles west of Jerusalem. It is now a suburb of Tel Aviv. Dorcas, or Tabitha (the Hebrew version of her name) — actually, I’m going to call her Tabitha because I can’t get this middl-school…
By Kinari Webb FMCSF’s “Green Team” gave this “Earth Moment” on Sunday, May 5, 2019. If we cannot mourn, we cannot heal. Since a human walked on the moon only 50 years ago, earth has lost 60% of the animals it had then. For a moment think about your favorite animal. Now mourn with me…
Luke 24:1-12 This is how our story begins: “On the first day of the week, when it was still dark, the women came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared.” When it was still dark, the women who loved Jesus set off to do the equivalent of a first-century embalming — taking…
By Sheri Hostetler Our Lenten series is “Spiritual Resilience in a Time of Chaos.” This is the second sermon of that series. There is a memory etched in my mind from the last week of my Mom’s life. Her church women’s group has come to sing to her, as they have many times before during…
By Sheri Hostetler Our Lenten series is “Spiritual Resilience in a Time of Chaos.” This is the first sermon of that series. 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Joan Chittister is a Benedictine nun, well-known writer and a passionate advocate for justice who has lived in Christian community for more than 60 years. So, she knows community. She…
By Sheri Hostetler Luke 19:1-10 Zacchaeus appears only once in the New Testament, in this story from the Gospel of Luke, but he is an unforgettable character. Too short to see Jesus in any other way, he climbs onto a limb of a big sycamore tree as Jesus walks down the road into Jericho. Zacchaeus…
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