Bulletin Scripture “Stumped” by Pastor Rosanna McFadden Good morning!  It is the second Sunday of Advent, and here we are, still waiting, still preparing, still hoping.  Wouldn’t it be great if we could skip right to Christmas, sing all of our favorite carols and go home to open presents and have a big meal?  Of…

Bulletin Scripture “Walk in the Light!” by Pastor Rosanna McFadden Good morning!  It is the first Sunday of Advent — we will have three more Advent Sundays before Christmas Day — and our theme for Advent this year is Simple Gifts.  We live in a society which tries to define gifts in exclusively commercial ways,…

Bulletin Scripture “Sermon Title”About Time” by Pastor Rosanna McFadden Good morning!  This is an exciting Sunday for worship planning — if it seems to you like there’s kind of a lot going on, you are correct.  If you have been coasting through the service so far on auto-pilot, let me just highlight some of what…

Bulletin Scripture “Sermon Title”Prayer Changes Things?” by Pastor Rosanna McFadden Good morning!  Did you hear about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac?  He laid awake at night wondering if there really is a DOG.  But seriously, what keeps you awake at night?  Until very recently, my answer would have been “Nothing.”  It’s unusual for me to be…

Bulletin Scripture “Let Us Pray” by Guest Speaker Gene Hollenberg Text Not Available

Bulletin Scripture “Running the Race” by Pastor Rosanna McFadden Good morning!  We got a bit of a patchwork reading from 2 Timothy this morning; this was my doing, not Jan’s.  You may have heard this passage read at funeral or memorial services, and indeed it was intended to be words of final instruction from the…

Bulletin Scripture “Are You Looking at Me?” by Pastor Rosanna McFadden Good morning!  The scripture I just shared has a special place in my heart — not only for its message, but because of associations I have with it.  It was the first parable I memorized as part of my biblical storytelling class when I…

Bulletin Scripture “Let’s Try Something New” by Guest Speaker Mark Riege Text Not Available

YouTube not available due to technical difficulties Bulletin Scripture “Chosen” by Pastor Rosanna McFadden Good morning!  Today I have accomplished something which I have been intending to do for five years or more.  It isn’t accepting new members — that is something I am always delighted to do, and I’m grateful that it happens more…

Bulletin Scripture Sermon Title”Let it Roll” by Pastor Rosanna McFadden Good morning!  My trip to church at Creekside takes me past several churches — at least three or four, depending on my route.  One of those churches has a digital electronic sign which can scroll different messages: a little higher tech than the movable letters…