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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]