4/6/2020

3/17/2020

COVID-19 is changing the way the world interacts and the church is not immune to those changes. Amid social distancing and shelter in place orders, many churches have either canceled worship or moved to a virtual form of worship. Pastors and sessions are looking for creative ways to be the church in a quickly changing landscape.

3/13/2020

3/9/2020

Called to minister in sacred moments

3/6/2020

Holy Week and Eastertide are not typically associated with stewardship. It is unlikely that Palm Sunday or Easter would be primetime for a sermon on stewardship. But in its larger sense, stewardship is everywhere in this sacred season: in our gratitude for Christ’s sacrifice, our awe at God’s incalculable blessings, and our commitment to a lifelong calling to service in the Spirit.

2/18/2020

2/11/2020

Editor’s note: We asked Minner Serovy, ministry relations officer for the Presbyterian Foundation, to reflect back on her career in ministry within the PC(USA). She retires at the end of February. She’s provided us with some terrific and hopeful observations.

1/30/2020

These next five Sundays in March, we sojourn into the sacred season of Lent, as the Spirit of the Lord prepares us for the cross of Holy Week, the silence of Holy Saturday, and the victory of Easter. The psalms and the Gospel readings go hand-in-hand as the former sings reflective words that glorify the Lord, and a corresponding Gospel reading that narrate a formative sacred encounter in which God’s mighty hand and outstretched arm of love and restoration are on full display. Enter this Lenten season with prayerful intentionality, both in personal devotions and in community. This is a special time for sacred encounters with the Lord who sojourns with us, who forges in our hearts and in our lives a deepening and broadening wellspring of joy through the trials and troubles of life in the real world.

1/17/2020

1/14/2020

During my six and a half years with the Presbyterian Foundation, I visited at least two hundred different churches throughout the states of Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and the little slice of Nebraska in the South Central region I served. I worshiped with many on Sunday mornings or during presbytery assemblies, and attended numerous committee and session meetings.

12/20/2019

There are plenty of possibilities for preaching stewardship in the Sermon on the Mount. Most preachers would not ordinarily think that comes with the Beatitudes of Jesus in the fifth chapter. However, if part of the theologically robust message on stewardship is the church’s call to bear witness to, support, and work for God’s justice in the world, then it is a fine pairing indeed. The key to that combination can be found in v.6: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”

12/17/2019