by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
THIS SUNDAY WAS A SPECIAL SERVICE OF CELEBRATION AND RECOGNITION FOR REV. CARLEEN GERBER’S 42 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE CHURCH. SIX REFLECTIONS WERE OFFERED: The Rev. David W. Good was FCCOL Senior Minister for 37 years until 2012, and is now our Minister...
by Robert McCracken | Sermons
Exodus 1:13-22 NRSV Midwives of Justice: Let the Children Live Several weeks ago I sat with Prudence Allen, one of our church members, in her kitchen. One of the joys of being a minister is getting to visit people in their homes where I hear amazing stories. As a...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Genesis 12: 1; Matthew 6: 11; Matthew 4: 1-4 Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread (Different Ways to Pray, Part 4) Over the last several weeks, we’ve been exploring what it means to pray, moving in a non-linear fashion through different practices of...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Matthew 6: 5-13 “Our Father, Who Art in Heaven…” (Different Ways to Pray, Part III) We say it every week. I’ve known the words by heart since I was six, maybe seven. They trip off my tongue in sequence, so that I rarely have to think about what...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Ephesians 3: 14-21 Different Ways to Pray, Part II: Strengthening Your Core Several weeks ago now, I shared with you an experience I had this summer, traveling into a mountain hollow in Kentucky to hear a distinctive form of singing found in the Old...
