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April 19, 2020 John 20:19-31 Philippians 4:4-9 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Joy is not usually an adjective people use for Jesus. Comforting, solemn, serious, even angry, those are some ways people envision Jesus. Jesus was also joyful though. Jesus celebrated and rejoiced... Read More →

April 12, 2020 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman Inspired by How the Grinch Stole Christmas!  By Dr. Seuss   Every Christian likes to celebrate Easter a lot…. But this year, it seemed celebrate we would not.   Wherever it came from, whatever the reason, The virus made this a very... Read More →

March 29, 2020 John 11:1-45 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Anyone feeling a little stir crazy these days? For our family, this is day 16 of “stay safe, stay at home”. And every day, the news seems to indicate that we have a lot more “stay at home” days to come. Does it make you... Read More →

I don’t know about you; however I have totally gotten the message to wash my hands thoroughly, sneeze into my elbow, and avoiding touching my face – or anyone else’s face for that matter. We are hearing a lot about how to keep our bodies safe so we do not overburden our health... Read More →

March 15, 2020, Online John 4:3-21, 28-30, 39-42 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Do you remember back to a year ago? A month ago? A week ago even? When we lamented how emotionally, socially, and politically disconnected we were. Red state, blue state, Bernie, Biden – remember when... Read More →

March 8, 2020 Mark 10:46-52 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman Just like in last’s week’s passage from earlier in the 10th chapter of the gospel Mark, in this morning’s scripture passage, Jesus is on the road again, a body in motion. In last week’s passage, a rich man ran up to Jesus and... Read More →

March 1, 2020 Mark 10:17-31 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Inside each one of us is this inclination to make things overly complicated. The Christian season of Lent is one of those things we have tended to make overly complicated. Give up this. Don’t eat that. Don’t eat at all.... Read More →

February 23, 2020 2 Peter 1:12-21 Matthew 17:1-9 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Whether your relationship with Jesus is fairly new or decades old, I hope you have had a mountain top experience with Jesus. I hope that there is at least one moment when you knew the glory, the... Read More →

February 9, 2020 John 15:1-6 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Despite having passed away seventeen years ago this month, Fred Rogers is very much en vogue right now. In addition to the movie and documentary about his life, there are countless books written by and about this man... Read More →

February 2, 2020 Luke 10:25-29, 36-37 Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Rev. Kristen J. Kleiman   Jesus calls us to love our neighbor, our metaphorical and our literal neighbor, the stranger and the person who lives beside us, our Christian and our non-Christian neighbors. Jesus calls us... Read More →