Title: “Come away”
Date: August 30, 2009
Text: Song of Songs 2:8-13
Author: Isaac Villegas
Our passage from the Song of Songs is an excerpt of a love poem. That simple fact is important. Our bible, this book that is central to our faith, is full of poems. The bible isn’t a book full of rules to memorize. And [...]

Title: Solomon’s Request
Texts: Psalm 111, 1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14, Ephesians 5:15-20, John 6:51-58
Date: August 16, 2009
Author: Tom Lehman
Psalm 111 was read a few minutes ago; it is an acrostic. After the opening “Praise to the Lord” there are 22 lines, each beginning with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet. (Waltner) Whether this reflects the [...]

I have returned… returned to the States and now back to Bangladesh.  Going back for Michael and Rachael’s wedding was a really nice vacation.   They’re now happily married and moved into their new house in Lancaster.  Derrick and Rebecca also recently bought a place in Harrisonburg and I was able to visit that as [...]

Title: Absalom, Absalom
Texts: 2 Sam 18:5-9, 15, 31-33
Date: August 9, 2009
Author: Isaac S. Villegas
“O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would that I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son” (2 Sam 18:33). With these words David is at his end. It’s too much for him. His own men [...]

Title: Being Church
Texts: Ephesians 4:1-16, John 6:24-35
Date: August 2, 2009
Author: Dave Nickel
Last summer, I was asked if I would be interested in doing an internship with the five congregations of Eastern Carolina District. I said yes, but I had some reservations.  Most of them were pragmatic: How would my time be divided among five congregations? [...]