Weekly Reflection

My heart goes out to those who were on that flight this week that made an emergency landing in Philadelphia due to what is referred to as an uncontained engine failure. My heart also goes out to the family and friends of the passenger who sustained a fatal injury. The description of the ...

What are the little tasks that you really, really hate to do? We all have certain things we dread doing for whatever reason, and we tend to put them off and find almost anything else to do rather than THAT. I happen to be thinking about this subject because at the moment, I'm si...

Happy Easter! He is risen!! I hope you had a wonderful and blessed celebration! This Sunday, we will also be celebrating. One of the very best things we do as a church family is to help our young people grow up in the faith AND grow in faith. And for twelve of o...

The Pastors and staff of St. John's wish you and your family a blessed and joy-filled celebration of our Lord's Resurrection. Please join us for Holy Week Worship Services: Maunday Thursday, March 29th - 7:30 PM A dramatic Tenebrae service with Holy Communion, Choral and Handbell ...

As we approach Holy Week, it's always a good practice to ask ourselves how our Lenten journey has been going. Do we feel ready to ponder the impact of Christ's death and to await His coming Resurrection? If you're like most people, your Lenten preparations have...

Did you ever notice how God sometimes sends an amazing little "perk" your way just when you need it? It was about 7:00 a.m. this morning. I was sitting at the kitchen table having some coffee, looking out the window at all the left-over snow from last week's storm, watching Accuwe...

So how is Lent going for you this year?? You know, preparing our hearts for Holy Week and Easter is a PROCESS. If we do nothing but imagine Lent as an "ordeal," we end up getting very little out of it. But if we use these weeks to anticipate that something wonder...

I know I'm out of my mind & I know my dogs are spoiled. It started about a year ago when one of them was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. He didn't want to eat, so naturally I started bribing him. It began with rotisserie chickens from Costco. Then it progressed...

It's not every year that both Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day fall on the same day! We hope you will join us tonight for worship as we begin the season of Lent. We also wish you a very happy Valentine's Day. I'd like to share a short poem I found online - may it remind us of what tru...

There is a lesson I wish I would learn, and it has to do with not getting bogged down in details. Even though I should have learned this lesson long ago, I still tend to erroneously believe that if I can just plan ahead, get everything organized, and, of course, think of every possible "kink" that...