Dear First Church Friends, What the Lord Requires Last week in worship we shared together in a Covenant Renewal Service that dates back to the mid 1700s. John Wesley, Methodism’s founder, prepared the service as a way people of faith could renew their covenant with God each year. We renewed our own faith together last [...]

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, [...]

While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. Luke 2:6-7 I’m a photographer in part by vocation currently and [...]