Did you hear the joyful noise that filled the air on Sunday night? Brass, guitar, banjo, drum, and voices… all raised in joyful song! If you were at Lenape Valley on Sunday night, you would have seen three flat-bed trucks side-by-side (many thanks to the folks at Marvic Supply Co. for that donation), transformed into a stage for the evening by flowers and a bold yellow Lion Chaser sign. And you wo...  Read More

Where were you 20 years ago?Think of the days in our history that are sealed in our memories… Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the assassination of JFK and Martin Luther King, Jr, and now 9-11. We know where we were, what we were doing, the people around us, how we reacted. For the last two weeks, our news media has retold 9-11 stories as we approached the 20th anniversary of that attack: one story after anot...  Read More

For the past week, I have awakened to the beauty of a quiet mountain lake; the early rays of light reflecting off the gentle ripple of the surface. From three balconies and more windows that we could count, the view of a quiet basin of water stretched out before our eyes… except when we couldn’t see a thing! Several mornings greeted us with a blanket of fog so dense we could barely see the railing...  Read More

Light… Like grace, Light is a theme that flows through the pages of the Bible from creation to Revelation. The first word that God speaks in creation is Light. And God saw that the light was good. God begins to bring shape and order into the chaos of the beginning through the creation of light. God then spreads those lights across the universe, providing light for day and night. God uses light to ...  Read More

Grace… Yes, last week’s letter was about grace… and so was last Sunday’s sermon… and the invitation to the Lord’s Table on the Sunday before… grace upon grace upon grace… We never seem to be able to say enough about grace- God’s amazing grace. When C.S. Lewis was asked what made Christianity unique among all the world’s religions, his answer was “grace.” He went on to detail features of other reli...  Read More

Friday, July 21st the 2020 Olympic Games began. After a year of delay due to the pandemic, the XXXII Olympiad opened with the usual fanfare of a grand Opening Ceremony, except that this year there were no cheering spectators in the stands. While in many ways the Olympics will look different this year due to the rising rate of COVID cases in Japan and around the world, the purpose of the games rema...  Read More