February 5, 2012 Peg Weissbrod
It was probably after the second or third time that we celebrated the Eucharist, the Lord’s Supper, by intinction instead of having Elders pass the plate down the pews that a member said to me: “John, that is really not the way Forest Hill Church does communion.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Sermon Archives | No Comments »February 5, 2012 Peg Weissbrod
Our Sine Nomine youth started worship off on the right foot with this number! Thank you to soloists Megan Muller-Girard and Sharif George.
Posted in Sermon Archives | No Comments »January 27, 2012 Peg Weissbrod
The issue of leadership is front and center for us all these days. We are in the midst of the political primaries where the candidates proclaim that they are the right leader for this age. And we have just ordained and installed new leaders, Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Sermon Archives | No Comments »January 22, 2012 Peg Weissbrod
There once was a Cleveland Heights preacher
Who doubled as Sunday School teacher
He preached and he prayed
And not a soul strayed
‘cause they were all asleep on the bleacher!
All right, that wasn’t very good but I wanted to do my part in this enhanced worship as we celebrate the gospel power of the poetic spirit! Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Sermon Archives | No Comments »January 15, 2012 Peg Weissbrod
I bumped into a person, an African American woman who I know pretty well, in the parking lot of Home Depot at Severance several years ago. I haven’t shared this story with you because it is rather embarrassing to me. In fact, it was so Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Sermon Archives | No Comments »January 8, 2012 Peg Weissbrod
Good old Herod – “King of the Jews” – appointed King of Judea by the Emperor Augustus in 37 B.C.E. By all reports he had a very successful reign. Ethnically Arab, but Herod was a practicing Jew. He increased the land he governed from Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Sermon Archives | No Comments »December 25, 2011 Peg Weissbrod
(Our informal Christmas Morning service in Fellowship Hall was not recorded.)
Posted in Sermon Archives | No Comments »December 24, 2011 Peg Weissbrod
Good evening and welcome! It is so good to see everybody again. I hope you stay for cookies after the service so you can greet one another. I also hope you get what you want tomorrow morning. But as Saint Mick Jagger once sang: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Sermon Archives | No Comments »December 18, 2011 Peg Weissbrod
John 1: 1-5, 9-14
read by Rev. Dr. John C. Lentz
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Sermon Archives | No Comments »December 18, 2011 Peg Weissbrod
Set the Sun Dancing, by P. Orr,
sung by The Chancel Choir
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