WORSHIP WITH US on Sunday, May 4, at 10:15 a.m.

WE LIVE STREAM OUR WORSHIP SERVICES AT 10:15 ON SUNDAY MORNING. You can join us online in real time at https://vimeo.com/event/1424751. This streaming address is the same each week.

The video of Sunday’s worship service will be posted after worship at https://vimeo.com/channels/1547852.

You can view and download the bulletin here.

We are now a little over 100 days into a second attempt to make America great again.

We’re only beginning to sort all of this out.

My concern—really, one among many—is that “great again” means “great like in the past,” a return to some previous golden age. But we cannot go back to the future.

We, of course, are not the first people to find themselves in new situations, trying to figure out what has happened and what is happening, what it all means, and how we might live in new ways in new days.

I Peter addresses early Christians in difficult circumstances. The author encourages them to set aside the thoughts and desires of their past—for life has changed—and to live according to their new calling in the resurrection.

Living into the future instead of the past requires mental strength and new ways of thinking. After the development of the atomic bomb Albert Einstein said: “Everything has changed, save for our thinking.” And that is the danger that we still face.

In these days, our changed world calls for new thought. Like the early Christians, we, too, hear the summons: “Prepare your minds for action!” We are called to change how we see things, how we think about what we see, and how we act upon what we think.

Scripture Lessons: I Peter 1:13-16; John 21:9-25

SERMON        “The Things Resurrection Makes Possible”

The Rev. Bill Lovin preaching

Anthem           ““Easter Fanfare: Christ the Lord Is Risen”   Paul Fetler     

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.