If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in… Read more Pastoral Letter – El Paso Shooting
This Sunday is Sock It To Me & Pie Party Sunday. Maybe we are starting a new tradition to mark the end of one year and the start of a new year. Sock It To Me sounds more adventurous than Put Your Best Foot Forward Sunday, though the idea is the same. Cross the threshold… Read more DAVID’S DIARY …
At the beginning of December I never would have guessed that my sermons for the month would be on prophets and poets, but they have been that. I thought it might be helpful for those who are interested to recall the names of the poets: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and on the 17th,… Read more DAVID’S DIARY …
Abiding Joy is our theme for this Sunday, the 3rd Sunday in Advent. The readings are Isaiah 61: 1-4, 8-11; John 1: 6-8, 19-28. As you read the paper or listen to the news be thinking about stories that you might be able to relate to these biblical readings, or stories that bring you joy.… Read more DAVID’S DIARY … ABIDING JOY
Words cannot really convey the spirit of joy that filled the Great Hall on Saturday night as we celebrated the Derby directed and inspired Christmas event. We were in an Advent wonderland as we entered the Great Hall thanks to all the hard work of WAM and those who helped hang the greens and decorate… Read more DAVID’S DIARY
My sermon title for Sunday is “More than a Wish.” The text is from the Gospel of Mathew 1: 18-25. When you read it you will recognize that this particular text is usually read on Christmas Sunday, or maybe the last Sunday in Advent. It is not usually read on the first Sunday in Advent.… Read more DAVID’S DIARY … ADVENT ONE
Let us all give a huge thank you to Harriett McGuire and her crew for the absolutely fantastic Thanksgiving Feast that we all enjoyed last Sunday. Four congregations gathered to sing, pray, eat and fellowship together. It was wonderful. In addition to being a terrific celebration, yesterday’s fellowship is an event we can and will… Read more DAVID’S DIARY … NOVEMBER NOTES
Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season. This Sunday, November 19, partner congregations will join us for worship and our Thanksgiving feast. Please join the PVCC family as we welcome Rev. Sherman Edwards and the 23rd Psalm Church of Deliverance; Rev. Kirkendall and the World Redemption Center Church, and Pastor LaMonica Williams and Faith… Read more DAVID’S DIARY … THANKSGIVING
Cheryl Roy and I had a good meeting with Harold Schlechtweg, the Policy Advocate for IRC. Harold has been on the job since October 1, and is reaching out to friends of refugees in the community. The following are some of the highlights of our meeting. There will be a gathering of faith leaders on… Read more DAVID’S DIARY … IRC REPORT
“Every time we think of you, we thank God for you” (I Thessalonians 1:2). In the next verse Paul continues with this theme to let the members of the congregation know that they are in his prayers day and night as he calls to mind their “work of faith, labor of love, and patience of… Read more DAVID’S DIARY … GIVING THANKS