Sermon Setting Loving Boundaries April 11, 2021 By Rich Tafel Dialogue with Sydney Frymire To be a follower of Jesus means that we are the highest calling is to love our neighbor. Only when we do this do we love God. Our time here on earth is to be of use in service to humanity. [...]
What Will You Leave Behind? I’ve been having conversations with people about how they feel about life at the end of the COVID tunnel. You would think that it is all joy, but there’s a bittersweetness I’m hearing. One friend I knew she was a single mother with two kids who had left the big city [...]
Find Community in the Midst of the Crowd Happy Palm Sunday! I want to talk today about the loneliness epidemic in our country and see what we can learn from our own spiritual tradition for ways we can build community. Today we celebrate Palm Sunday when we remember Jesus coming into Jerusalem. Despite being targeted by [...]
What’s More Important, Praying or Doing? I want to thank Tony for his question: what is the balance between just praying for good things or taking actions to make them happen? To get the answer, let’s look at the gospel story today. Jesus is sharing his wisdom with two sisters who are disciples. Mary sits at [...]