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September 27, 2020 Matthew 4:18-22; 28:16-20 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Not all who wander are lost; however if you don’t have a destination, you will never get where you want to go. The Church of Jesus Christ has had a destination, a purpose, from even before we were a... Read More →

September 20, 2020 Genesis 12:1-9 Isaiah 43:18-19   For hundreds of years, the Church of Jesus Christ has paddled along. Sure, there have been waves and some wind however most of the time it has been smooth water. And then in the last few decades, the Church has found... Read More →

September 13, 2020 1 Corinthians 12:4-31 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Over the last 6 months, we have been reminded that the church is not a building. The church is a body, the body of Jesus Christ. With our different points of view, our different gifts and talents, our... Read More →

August 30, 2020 Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Matthew 18:18-20 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Recently, I came across this quote, “The nomad spirit of modernity has dashed the integrity of community – but not the need for it.” (Harold Beekser, Patches of Godlight: Father Tim’s Favorite... Read More →

August 23, 2020 Psalm 104:1-13, Psalm 8 Genesis 1: 11, 20, 24-25 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   You may have heard of ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder. Have you ever heard of NDD though? While not a formal medical diagnosis, NDD, Nature Deficit Disorder, is used to describe the... Read More →

August 16, 2020 Ezekial 37:1-14 Romans 5:5 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   “You’ll get through this. It won’t be painless. It won’t be quick, but God will use this mess for good. In the meantime, don’t be foolish or naïve, but don’t despair either. With God’s help, you will get... Read More →

August 9, 2020 Confirmation Sunday 2 Timothy 1:5-7 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Back in the wintertime, when this Confirmation group began their last unit in a two year Confirmation journey, I joked that we liked them too much to let them go, that we were just going to keep... Read More →

August 2, 2020 Psalm 100 & 150 2 Chronicles 5:11-14 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Music has many wonderful benefits that science has discovered. We don’t need science though to tell us that music is comforting, that music is inspiring, that music can calm our hearts and lift... Read More →

July 26, 2020 John 1:1-5 Isaiah 9:2-7 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Ambiguous loss. It’s a term psychologist Pauline Boss identified to name losses that don’t have a resolution. At first, the term was used for the grief that comes with a loved one being there but not there, like... Read More →

There was a time when I would read the 23rd psalm at a memorial service, and people would say it along with me. That rarely happens anymore. These days when I mention the 23rd psalm while planning someone’s memorial service, I often receive a blank stare from their family.   I go... Read More →