UCC General Synod - Sunday, June 21
Faithful and Welcoming Churches (FWC) chose lip balm as our 2009 “giveaway” for the UCC’s General Synod in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  The technical name is “Savor the Flavor Lip Balm.” 
If you are attending, we hope the mint-flavored, “Vitamin-E enriched lip balm relieves and revitalizes (your) dehydrated lips.”  That’s [...]

Brother Lawrence, a seventeenth century uneducated monk, is best known for a book of his letters and conversations, The Practice of the Presence of God.  He lived and died testifying to a keen awareness of God’s constant companionship all through the day.
In one of his essays, he answered the “How” question. 

“Who’s In Charge At Home?”  (Colossians 3:18-4:1), June 21, 2009
As long as your home is a power struggle, somebody doesn’t get it.

Elders in Business
It has been more than a generation since anyone at Corinth formally held the title of “elder.”  No one has made any decision about whether to bring the title back, but as I have raised the issue with current church leaders, I wanted to know what the rest of the congregation might think.  [...]

Over the past few weeks, I have been writing in this space about the work of an elder.  We looked at the Bible, at John Calvin’s model of church government in Geneva, and at the German Reformed Church (in the U.S.) in the nineteenth century.
In 1934, Corinth’s name and identity changed from a Reformed church [...]