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May 25, 2025, 6th Sunday of Easter, Year C — Memorial Day Weekend Texts: John 5:1-9, Revelation 22:1-5 Sermon: A Kiss to Make it Better...

May 18, 2025, 5th Sunday of Easter, Year C Texts: Acts 11:1-18, Revelation 21:1-8, John 13:31-35 Sermon: The Smell Test   Hymns: ...

May 11, 2025, 4th Sunday of Easter, Year C -- Mother’s Day Texts: John 10:11-18, Psalm 23 Sermon: A Psalm for All Seasons         ...

May 4, 2025, 3rd Sunday of Easter, Year C -- Holy Communion  Texts: Psalms 30:1-12, Acts 9:1-20 Sermon: How to Defeat Evil        ...

Dear Friends,  Last December, Cindy and I were at the manse decorating our tree for Christmas when I happened to glance out the...

April 27, 2025, 2nd Sunday of Easter, Year C Texts: John 20:19-23, Acts 5:27-32 Sermon: Easter Gifts Hymns: #245 Christ the Lord Is Risen...

Dear Friends,  I was reminded the other day of a story I saw in  The Joyful Noiseletter  some years ago:  A pastor was talking to a group...

March 5, 2025, Ash Wednesday, Year C 7:00pm Joint Ecumenical Service here at KPC with Katonah-Purdys United Methodist and St. Luke’s...

March 2, 2025, Transfiguration of the Lord, Year C Texts: Exodus 34:29-35, Luke 9:28-36 Sermon:      One Degree at a Time Hymns: ...

Dear Friends,              Many of our religious observances involve reflective preparation followed by a big celebration, such as Advent...

Loving our enemies can feel out of our reach if we think of love merely as emotion.  But love is an intentional action of caring...

Life is a mixture of blessings and woes, but trusting in the God of love revealed in the Christ of sacrifice can lift us above all that...

It can be frightening to answer the call of God and step out in faith.  But the call of God is usually in the small moments of kindness...

We are called and empowered to plant seeds of God’s love, caring and justice, and to pluck up the weeds that threaten to choke the...

In these anxious times, have faith that God’s hand is guiding us with love.  It doesn’t always seem that way, because no one can fully...

The first miracle of Jesus was to liven up a wedding party.  We are all linked together with God in a marriage of Christ’s love, so eat,...

Repentance isn’t merely about being sorry for mistakes; it’s primarily a path to freedom.  When we repent, we let go of old ideas and...