Life is hard. If it isn’t hard for you today, it was last month or will be next month. That’s just a fact of life this side of heaven. You or your someone in your household may be facing health issues, financial struggles, relationship challenges, employment difficulties…you may be grieving the loss of a loved one, or the loss of a dream or …who knows?

And yet scripture calls us to “give thanks in all circumstances.”

It’s more than just getting ready for Christmas; Advent is about reminding ourselves of how we
might prepare to live the life God makes possible. That involves getting ready to meet God in
everyday life.

Sermon by Pastor Bill Chadwick | November 17, 2019 II Corinthians 9:6-8 In my long and varied experience, I have heard of only two Presbyterian congregations that do not hold an annual financial stewardship program. Those two are Calvary in McGrath and Wahkon Presbyterian Church. I knew from my previous time here that you didn’t…

We are all children of God. Therefore, we are all sisters and brothers. And we are “God’s delight.
And as God’s children we are to be about the business of God, which is the business of love.

Which is perfect! That is precisely what we are doing at a funeral. Our loved ones do not belong to us. We merely borrow them for a while. And eventually we have to return them to the One who loves them even more than we do, the One who fashioned them, and, for a time, loaned them to us.

We all do the best we can. Of course we do. But how the kids turn out is, to a huge and frightening extent, like so many other things out of our control. And sometimes, I believe, out of their control. Luck.

A grandmother’s love—I like to think that this is how God feels about each one of us. How God feels about you. In the Church, we call it grace.

Sermon by Pastor Bill Chadwick | October 20, 2019 1 Corinthians 12:12-17, 27 One Body with Many Members12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in the one Spirit we were all…

The Word from the Lord this week, and every week, is “You are my beloved daughter. You are my beloved son.”

The Resurrection demonstrates that ultimately
suffering love is more powerful than hatred,
forgiveness is more powerful than violence,
life is more powerful than death.
Love wins.