September 16, 2018

  In Isaiah 58, the people of God have come home to Jerusalem, after being in captivity in Babylon, only to find their city in shambles.   They gather among the ruins of the temple, and cry out to God, fasting and weeping, mourning what once was.  They look around and hear whispers of violence in […]

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September 9, 2018

  Frank Borman is either the least complicated astronaut’s ever to slip free of of our planet’s gravity, or one of the most romantic.  He was the commander of the Apollo 8 Mission.  It was the first time humans had gone and orbited the Moon.  After returning to the earth, NASA was curious about how […]

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September 2, 2018

Let us pray. Dear Lord and Creator, we ask that you would be with us as we explore today’s scripture and strengthen our resolve to seek justice for all people in every community. Amen Let’s begin by setting the scene for today’s story. A few days before meeting the Canaanite woman, Jesus had been in […]

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August 26, 2018

  Jesus said to his disciples, “whoever is not against us is for us.” His disciples look to each other, confused. How can that be? We’re the ones that you chose. We’re the ones that are healing like you showed us. We’re the ones healing people the right way. John ran to Jesus expecting to […]

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August 19, 2018

  Guide us O God, By your Word and Spirit, That in your light we may see light In your truth find freedom And in your will discover your peace Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen In two weeks, I start my final year as a student at Princeton Seminary. That is a sentence that […]

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August 12, 2018

  I recently read a book called We are the Ants. It’s a young adult novel that tells the story of Henry Denton. Henry is a high school senior and he’s pretty frustrated with his life. His mother struggles to make ends meet as a waitress, his father left when he was young, he and […]

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August 5, 2018

  One of the popular questions I get as a seminary student is – what brought you to the church? I’m pretty open about my past feeling rejected and ostracized in a tradition that did not accept me. Open about the fact that in high school I left the church and was perfectly content to […]

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July 29, 2018

    This past week, in between torrential rain and lightning storms, our very own fearless leader Mary Jo Zimbro led a group of volunteers from MPC as we had a week of elementary school aged camp in the Woodbourne-McCabe Neighborhood.   We joined with congregants from Faith Presbyterian Church, and volunteers from The Center, who […]

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July 22, 2018

Lulu Miller and Alix Spiegel, the hosts of one of my favorite Podcasts, Invisibilia,  ask the intriguing question “Could our expectations make a blind person who literally has no eyeballs see?”  You would expect that the answer would be No, absolutely not.  But the story they share about Daniel Kish defies most people’s expectations. When […]

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July 21, 2018

By Pastor David Norse   It seems right that we gather to remember Pat in a little church in the woods, that we will lay to rest some of Pat’s ashes in the woods she loved so well, under a towering oak tree. I think she would like the idea of us commending her to […]

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