by Pastor Pam Brokaw | Jun 2, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
Acts 16:16-34 (NRSV) 6 One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. 17 While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of...
by Pastor Pam Brokaw | May 19, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
Scriptural Context and Frame Today’s Scripture reading begins after the writer of John tells us that Judas has betrayal of Jesus in his heart. Despite this, we know Jesus washed the feet of the disciples and broke bread with them. The verse beginning with “When he had...
by Pastor Pam Brokaw | May 12, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
Did You Know? —Feasting on the Gospels, Andy Watts The Gospel of John speaks to the forming of a new community. “God is forming a new community rather than destroying the known one…God is revealing God’s self through Jesus the Christ…” John 10:19-30 19 Again the...
by Pastor Pam Brokaw | May 5, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
Pastor Pam is away on vacation. Her weekly blog will resume the week of May 12.
by Pastor Pam Brokaw | Apr 28, 2019 | Pastor's Blog
Did You Know? –John Stendahl, Feasting on the Word • “Our ministry is emblematic of the purposes for which others are to use their resurrection breath, speaking and doing the gospel of mercy and justice. May Jesus breathe in our words, but also let our hearers speak...