Here's a glimpse inside PCOL's new jobs training program, CookWell, from its executive director, Anita Narayan: It was such a pleasure to join Frank’s culinary class this morning. Frank started the private class for TyQuae [...]
Stand Up and Raise Your Heads Sometimes, the forces at work can overwhelm us. What can I do about gun violence, global warming, war? Dr. Vamos reflects on the two choices offered in Luke [...]
Sermon by Dr. Abigail Rian Evans Sunday, November 25, 2018 https://s3.amazonaws.com/pcol-media/sermons/2018/Service+2018-11-25.mp3
Conquering Anxiety By Wanda Sevey, Director and Instructor for Council for Relationships Living with fear and its lesser demon, anxiety, is uncomfortable at best and at worst, miserable. One of obstacles to reducing anxiety [...]
How do human beings really find happiness? And in what does happiness consist? Can you pursue happiness, or does it "ensue" as a byproduct of some other pursuit? Dr. Vamos revisits the questions he [...]
Our leaders are proposing a vision for our congregation that will not be easy to implement. Accomplishing this, however, seems critical if we are to be faithful to Christ's call to our congregation in [...]
Week of October 21 The CookWell program has now completed its 4th week and our trainees have begun their apprenticeships with our local restaurant partners, Acacia and Leonardo's II. We began the week with a roundtable discussion at PCOL where [...]
"God, our help in ages past... OUR HOPE for years to come." Please join us to celebrate our community and our church home at The Capital Campaign Kickoff Luncheon Sunday, November 4, 2018 11:15am – 12:45pm [...]
There's a story––one of many––in which people begin to crowd around Jesus. In this particular story, these people are parents who are bringing their children to Jesus so that he might bless them. The [...]
Can we live a happy and flourishing life if we're not living a virtuous life? What is virtue from a Christian perspective, and how do we develop it? In this fifth sermon in the [...]
As Christians, the need to practice forgiveness could not be more clear in Scripture. But what exactly is forgiveness? We know forgiveness when we feel it, but defining itis often much more difficult. Does [...]
The standard disclaimer for various mutual fund advertisements: "Past performance does not guarantee future results." But spiritually--and psychologically--our past experiences are highly determinative of our future ones; they condition our choices. In this sermon, [...]
Sermon two in the series, "Living Abundantly: Christian Practices for Cultivating the Flourishing Life" Important note: Before listening to this sermon, you are encouraged to watch this video, which is about selective attention. It will [...]
Sermon one in the series, "Living Abundantly: Christian Practices for Cultivating the Flourishing Life" Can Christian faith make us happy? Can you even pursue happiness? Or does happiness have to happen? In this introductory sermon to [...]
Join us on Sunday, October 7 at 3pm in the Fellowship Center for our first annual Blessing of the Animals! Pre-registration required. Please click below to register online (deadline September 30). [...]
Join us at 11:30am in the Lounge on September 23 for our annual History Sunday education program. Church historian Bill Schroeder will present "Things You Might Not Have Noticed," a collection of little-known facts [...]
Soren Kierkegaard once wrote, "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." Is Christian faith more about solving the problem of sin, or the adventure of living [...]
How easy is it for our resentment to solidify into self-righteousness and the desire to even the scales? Dr. Vamos explores a story about a woman who was insulted, by none other than Jesus, [...]
