Preparing for Worship: The Lord’s Prayer

Preparing for Worship: The Lord’s Prayer

This devotional experience is meant to introduce you to this Sunday’s passage and offer you paths for reflection. Please go through it at your own pace, lingering on the aspects that are most meaningful for you.  One time Jesus was praying in a place. When he...
Peter Comes Home: Virtual Worship for Friends

Peter Comes Home: Virtual Worship for Friends

Dear Friends, we offer this self-directed worship outline as a resource for individual, family, or small group use. It is modeled on our regular order of worship, but please adapt it freely to suit your needs and circumstances. We hope this will be a blessing to you....
Searching For Emmanuel

Searching For Emmanuel

All four gospels include a scene, early on, about seeking after Christ. Stylistically, it’s a bit like a note to the reader, a reminder to pay attention to the One being presented. It might seem a little strange to need a note like that. If I’m reading a biography of...
Temples: Jacob’s Altar Call

Temples: Jacob’s Altar Call

I quoted a piece of Psalm 146 on the back of the bulletin for you. It uses a title for God that ought to make even the most degenerate of us hopeful: the God of Jacob:   Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God. He is...
Praying for Wilmington YM | August, 2017

Praying for Wilmington YM | August, 2017

As the difficult business session of Wilmington Yearly Meeting was drawing to a close, Doug Haag (exiting Executive Secretary) challenged us to spend less time arguing and more time praying. This challenge stuck with me, and so I’ve created a prayer calendar for...