Core Muscles, Bedrock Faith ~ Matthew 7: 21-29

October 28, 2018 Peg Weissbrod

Sermon begins near the 30 minute mark.

Did you see that picture of the one house that withstood Hurricane Michael? There was a house built on sand and on a foundation that could withstand that storm – everything else was flattened. That is the PERFECT image for this passage. Read the rest of this entry »

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Who Knew? ~ 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13; 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, 14-17

June 14, 2015 Peg Weissbrod

Dr. Walter Brueggemann was our guest preacher today, encouraging us to engage in a ministry of reconciliation that refuses social differentiations based on bias and habit and stereotypes, to refuse to regard others from a human point of view, but instead see people as they are and not as they are said to be.

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