Join us on Saturday, March 7, 2020 at 3 pm for the SI Smart Energy Workshop. Are you interested in saving money on energy bills & reducing your environmental impact? Join us to learn more about your Smart Energy options. We’ll help clear the confusion around peak time rebates, hourly pricing, smart meters, electrical grid…
Mark 7:1-23 What defiles one comes from within There’s a lot going on here, and we need to be careful not to make this about all the ways that the Jews are unfaithful. As so often happens, people in the crowd are looking to defame the followers of Christ, and therefore Christ. They want to know why the disciples don’t wash…
We’ve spent the past month working on our strengths, listing them, thinking about them, and sharing them. This next bit, we’re going to think about what needs work, what we don’t do so well, or maybe what we don’t do at all. Hear what you think our strengths are, as you think about what we can do better.
LEAF shared what they do in worship with us today. LEAF, Little Egypt Alliance of Farmers, was founded in 2016 by seven Southern Illinois farmers, to support small sustainable farms. Our goals are two fold: to make ordering local food easier for busy customers;and to support small farmers by providing an online marketplace to sell their goods. Our…
Mark 6:1-29 Jesus rejected at Nazareth; sending of the Twelve; death of John the Baptist. Jesus is the only one who knows what’s going on in this passage. It’s a long chunk of text, and not quite chronological, but Jesus is the only one who seems to have a grip on what’s going on. In the synagogue on the Sabbath, in…
Mark 5:21-43 Jesus heals Jairus’ daughter and the woman with the flow of blood. Again Jesus crosses over to the other side. Getting out, a crowd is gathered waiting to see Jesus. A leader of the synagogue comes to see Jesus, with a daughter who is close to death. Jesus goes with Jairus. And on the way something happens. The…
Pastor Wade was called to First Presbyterian Church 10 years ago. Today we marked that time and celebrated it.
Mark 5:1-20 Jesus heals the Gerasene demoniac By the time we get to this part of the story, we know that things happen when we cross the river, or the sea, and get to the other side. So, we shouldn’t be surprised to see something big happen here. They go across the sea, and land in the land of the Gerasenes. More…
Friends, listen to Wils and Liam enlist your aid in making fleece blankets to distribute at local hospitals.
Mark 4:1-34 Parables of sower and mustard seed Parables are something we spend a lot of time on in the church. Jesus uses parables to teach us things. Often we end up with a superficial reading, which domesticates the parables, or we go so deep that we lose the relation of the parable to our lives. Sometimes Jesus explains the parables, but…