Pentecost, truth-telling, and the kind of community the Spirit creates Acts 2:1-24, 36-47 Sunday, May 24, 2026 Rev. David R. Collins Watch | Listen How many of you like celebrating your birthday? How many don’t? And how many feel just kind of conflicted about it? I’m with the conflicted. On the positive side, there’s cake. And text messages. Maybe a little trip. On the negative side…well...sometimes the mirror is a surprise. But there is something about getting older that I r

Sunday, May 17, 2026 The Rev. Megan Collins Watch | Listen When I was 9 I met my first childhood best friend. We were erasing the chalkboard together in our elementary classroom and we struck up a conversation. We ended up spending the entire afternoon together on the playground. By the end of the week we were inseparable. We stayed every Friday night at each other’s houses. We made matching sweatshirts. We came up with special code words. And then we got . . . friendship bra

Most people confuse optimism with hope, and pessimism with despair. But they’re not the same things at all. Hope goes much deeper. And the hope of Abraham goes even deeper than that. It is not confidence in that things will go well. Hope is confidence in the faithfulness of God.