March 17th Seeker’s Class Assignment and Background

March 17  Readings        Read Mark 14:1-16:8       Myers, Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, pages 181-212  Background: Women play a particularly significant role throughout Mark’s gospel and especially so in these last chapters. Most biblical scholars agree that the original manuscript ends with 16:8, or perhaps there were multiple versions of the ending…

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Three months together

This week marks my three month anniversary with PVCC. I started on Oct. 14th, although I did not lead worship until November. I thought that one way to mark our journey is with these words taken from a prayer for the church written by Reinhold Niebuhr, “O God, grant us grace fitly to be joined…

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Great Activities

I want to invite you to two events this Saturday, January 12. The first is the Annual Meeting of Interfaith Worker Justice Kansas, which is an organization that I am affiliated with. We will meet in Dugan Convention Center on the campus of Newman University. The meeting will begin with a welcome and gathering at…

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Message From the Pastor

I am watching the snow blanket the earth with much needed moisture as I write this on Monday afternoon.  As I watch the big flakes fall gently, I am thinking of Wendell Berry’s poem “What We Need is Here”. Celebrating and honoring a Creation-centered spirituality is a fine way to welcome the New Year.  Promising to…

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