PASTOR’S COLUMN​   27 “Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out  to an isolated  place to pray.”Mark 1:37, NLT                                                                                            ​       “1 st Sunday in Lent – Finding Sacred Space”   One of the great emphases of Lent is the time-honored tradition in the Christian faith when we, the followers of Jesus Christ, devote forty-six days (inclusive of Sundays) to find a sacred space to have

PASTOR’S COLUMN​   25 “Certainly there were many needy widows in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine devastated the land. 26  Yet, Elijah was not sent to any of them. He was sent instead  to a foreigner – a widow of Zarephath in the land of Sidon.   27  And many in Israel had leprosy in the time of the prophet Elisha, but the only one healed was Naaman, a Syrian.”   28  When they heard this, the people in the synagog

PASTOR’S COLUMN​   5 “I am black  and beautiful,  O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. 6 Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has gazed on me. They made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!”         Song of Solomon 1:5-6, NRSV                                                                                            ​       “2nd Sunday – Expressing God’s Gift!”   The bias toward physical