by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Text: Proverbs 8: 1-4, 32-36 “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” Robert Frost wrote in 1914, a line that has planted itself in my imagination like a sentinel. I thought about it when I spent two...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
THIS WAS STEWARDSHIP SUNDAY, AND WE ASKED 5 PEOPLE, INCLUDING STEVE, TO OFFER TESTIMONIALS DESCRIBING WHAT THE 1ST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH HAS MEANT TO THEM. THE PRESENTERS WERE JOHN KIKER, RACHEL GABRIEL, DOUG KIEM, FAYE RICHARDSON, AND STEVE. JOHN KIKER In the spirit...
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 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...