Category: Pastor Cheryl’s Blog

What a relief it is to sit down after a task is completed. We often let out a sigh of relief as we lean back and quietly celebrate our accomplishment of completing a task that we might have dreaded. The book of Hebrews talks about Jesus sitting down at the…

Why didn’t Christ raise immediately after He died? Why did He have to lay three days in a tomb before He rose again? God’s plan for us often involves some time waiting. The first church waited without expectation. No one knew what was going to happen. The disciples were hiding…

This Wednesday night we will be examining the scripture where Jesus surrenders His spirit to God in John 19:30. Jesus had finished the task that God gave Him to do, now He was ready to surrender to God everything that only the Father could do. Resurrection was just around the…

Life has surprises for us that require us to adjust. Even pleasant surprises may call upon us to make changes that inconvenience us. It must have been the joy of lifetime for the Israelites to see the promise land for the first time. But this site was also the fear…

Ash Wednesday is a unique time where we contemplate our mortality while without fear. Most of the time when we think of our lives ending, we sense the anxiety of illness and pain. But in Ash Wednesday, we contemplate God’s grace that aids us when this mortal life fails us.…

The psalmist tells us that God’s mercies are new every morning. God gives us is grace and love to share with this world. We are loved to pass that love on. Mercy is not always valued in our culture. We live in a world that demands “me first”. But God…

God uses mere people to bring about miraculous events. That is the unfolding story of the bible. In the Old and New Testament, we read stories of flawed people carrying out God’s will. This is best illustrated in the Christmas Story. Please listen to my talk on “Contemplating Christmas: Why…

There have been some tough news stories this week. It seems that our world is at war with itself. What has touched me most strongly was the innocents that have suffered because of arbitrary violence. This week is also the Advent Lesson of Joy, which may be hard to contemplate…