Through the Presbyterian Church (USA) Young Adult Volunteer program, 68 young people (ages 19-30) will be serving for the next year in various locations throughout the US and the world. Our congregation is represented through [...]
First - I acknowledge the title of this entry sounds rather...strange. But to explain. I will be on vacation for the next several weeks, and we have an all-star cast of preachers lined up to [...]
Last Sunday was installment two in our new sermon series, "Questions from the Floor." The topic: "How will Amendment 10A affect the Presbyterian Church (USA) going forward?" My approach was simply to describe some of [...]
This Sunday, we began a new sermon series called Questions from the Floor. This series is the brainchild of my colleague Louise, who compiled a list of questions that came from...you! Each of the [...]
Deacon Mark Smith
The Reverend Jeffrey A. Vamos
First: please insert here my much-to-self-referential brooding about...sin and forgiveness...the weakness of the flesh...writer's block...the insane schedule of a parish Pastor. Having intended to keep up with my blogging discipline, I see I have failed [...]
Is it possible that Mick Jagger has really nailed it, in describing the prime spiritual malady of our times? Well - maybe for all times? This Sunday's sermon (sermons - plural - as I'll [...]
Back on the blog horse, and dipping my toe in. (Aha! Master of the Mixed Metaphor! To dip my horse hoof in? My blog's equine lower digit...?) This year, as I return to my blogging [...]
First - a brief word about my personal M.O. I am an ENFP according to the Myers-Briggs type indicator. When I took this test - er, I mean "inventory" (they make a big deal about [...]
Feeling rather guilty for not writing here for the last several weeks - and then (in Pauline fashion!) I realize that I do well not to make more of myself than I ought. Might I [...]
Sometimes when you're short of words, you need someone else's to bail you out. How cool to hear Cornel West riff on Jesus, Tennessee Williams, John Coltrane, and Anton Checkov - among others. What does [...]
This Sunday, I have five minutes. Five minutes of homiletical air-time, during a worship service that we are calling "Confir-baptismo-palooza". Six baptisms, representing a bell-curve of ages from adult to infant, and then we celebrate [...]
The text for this Sunday is the post-resurrection appearance of Jesus in John 21: Jesus' breakfast by the sea with his disciples. Perhaps many of you are familiar with this story. The Disciples are hard [...]
This week's posting is NOT about the sermon - either the one last week, or the one upcoming. This Sunday, I'm off pulpit duty - and hats off to Leigh Stuckey, who will be preaching [...]
