08/03/2020 - God's Greatest Stories
By: Gregory Dawson - Starting With Scripture"It is in the human heart where God writes the greatest stories." — Rev. Dr. Greg Dawson
Devotionals
Devotionals
07/27/2020 - Wine, Milk, Bread
By: Elizabeth Magill - Starting With Scripture"These programs are Christian ideas, growing out of Jesus’ promise that there will be more than enough ...
07/20/2020 - Unknowing
By: Shawn Fisher - Starting With Scripture"I don’t get to know the impact of most of what I do. I used to." — Rev. Shawn Fisher
07/13/2020 - Playing The Hero
By: Jeffrey Gallagher - Starting With Scripture"Maybe... I’m a weed. Or maybe I’m the sower." — Rev. Dr. Jeff Gallagher
07/06/2020 - An Unexpected Struggle
By: Eric Seaholm - Starting With Scripture"Help us to spread our generosity abundantly..." — Rick Seaholm
06/29/2020 - Allow God to Step In
By: Heather Lucas - Starting With Scripture"God will speak to us and guide us. Sometimes this can take a while..." — Rev. Heather Lucas
06/22/2020 - The God Who Sees
By: Richard Floyd - Starting With Scripture"Providence means not just that God sees, but that God 'sees to it.'" — Rev. Dr. Richard Floyd
06/15/2020 - Soul of Leadership
By: Deborah Rundlett - Starting With Scripture"What does it profit if you gain the whole world and lose your soul?"— Rev. Deborah Rundlett
06/07/2020 - Suffering Together
By: Thomas Gregory Gray - Starting With Scripture"We will work for a future when others don’t have to suffer like this and know this kind of loss." — Rev....
06/01/2020 - Context Matters
By: Nina Barlow Schmid - Starting With Scripture"Reduced to insidious suffering or raised to new heights of gratitude, we fashion our responses to God ...
05/25/2020 - What Are We Waiting For?
By: Alison Buttrick Patton - Starting With Scripture"So what if this is what we were waiting for?"— Rev. Alison Buttrick Patton
05/18/2020 - God Is Giving Power To The People
By: Frank Basler - Starting With Scripture"Can we affirm that our awesome God is giving power and strength to God’s people?" — Rev. Frank Basler
05/11/2020 - No Test Required
By: Janet Peck - Starting With Scripture"Jesus never ever asked any of His followers or anyone at all for that matter to pass a test, cite a ...
05/04/2020 - Peace Beyond the Platitudes
By: Jonathan Chapman - Starting With Scripture"Jesus doesn’t say that peace is instantaneous." — Rev. Dr. Jonathan Chapman
04/27/2020 - Green Pastures
By: Johanna Hattendorf - Starting With Scripture'Yet, into a global pandemic, we have these amazing words from Psalm 23." — Rev. Johanna Hattendorf
04/20/2020 - Glimpses of Resurrection on the Road
By: Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager - Starting With Scripture"What does it mean to be on the lookout for resurrection in each step?" — Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager
04/13/2020 - Encounter the Divine
By: John Zehring - Starting With Scripture"To seek is an active verb, not passive. It prompts us to do something, to take action, to go looking and...
04/06/2020 - Opened & Closed
By: John White - Starting With Scripture"So, there is no blame... only how we think and pray and choose to live in each new now." — Rev. John ...
03/30/2020 - No Parades
By: Wallace A. Hurd IV - Starting With Scripture"We can invent new ways of showing mercy, bringing the grace and peace of Jesus Christ into the world, ...
03/23/2020 - Been a Sinner All My Life
By: Leanne Walt - Starting With Scripture"We forget what it is to need forgiveness ourselves." — Rev. Leanne Walt
03/16/2020 - Cup Runneth Over
By: Larissa Forsythe - Starting With Scripture"Whatever we might want to frame as hopeless, God encourages us to take another look through the lens of ...
03/09/2020 - The Disappeared
By: Lindsey Peterson - Starting With Scripture"There is always a quality of healing in a circle; an integration of separated parts." — Rev. Lindsey ...
03/02/2020 - Reflecting With a Woodstork Among The Trees
By: Frances Bogle - Starting With Scripture"Hope flies anew as we dare to believe that all things are possible."— Rev. Fran Bogle
02/24/2020 - Preparing The Way
By: Amy Bruch - Starting With Scripture"Consider instead your empty hands. What could they hold, offer or create?" — Rev. Amy Bruch
02/16/2020 - Jesus Shines Brighter
By: Barbara Kershner - Starting With Scripture"It is winter, but Jesus is shining regardless of weather conditions." — Rev. Barbara Kershner
02/10/2020 - The Thief of Joy
By: Jonathan Goodell - Starting With Scripture"Comparison puts us into a fortress of judgment and limits the field of vision that we use." — Rev. ...
02/03/2020 - Engaging Turbulence
By: Janet Newton - Starting With Scripture"When faced with turbulent times, are we called to turn inward, or are we called to actively engage?" — ...
01/27/2020 - The Door is Open — Come On In
By: Dawn Adams - Starting With Scripture"If the door seems closed, we should not give up and walk away, but take time to reflect on our lives and...
01/20/2020 - Ever Changing Call
By: Kevin Williams - Starting With Scripture"As we grow and learn and live, our call can shift right along with it."— Kevin Williams
01/13/2020 - Come and See
By: Sara Ofner-Seals - Starting With Scripture"'Come and see"... not a command, an invitation." — Rev. Sara Ofner-Seals
01/06/2020 - Wading in Deep Waters
By: R. Maxwell Grant - Starting With Scripture"The past, it turns out, was prologue." — Rev. Max Grant
12/30/2019 - Spirit Among Us
By: Shepard Parsons - Starting With ScriptureRev. Shepard Parsons shared a story of the Spirit shaping a difficult moment.
12/23/2019 - Paradoxical Christmas
By: Deborah Rundlett - Starting With Scripture"We cannot encounter the true joy of Christmas without also facing the sorrows born of loss, suffering ...
12/16/2019 - In Dreams
By: Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager - Starting With ScriptureThe Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager is a Senior Associate Minister at The First Congregational Church of Old...
12/09/2019 - Signs and Wonders
By: Sue Foster - Starting With Scripture"As we celebrate the Prince of Peace, where exactly is the peace?" — Rev. Sue Foster
12/02/2019 - It’s a Wilderness Out There
By: Patricia Kriss - Starting With Scripture"Too many of those we might turn to for help act more like Pharisees than The Baptists."—Rev. Pat Kriss
11/25/2019 - Still Here
By: Rachel Beam - Starting With Scripture"The “Son of Man” does not come to us with trumpets, but with the quiet insistence of a thief on a ...
11/18/2019 - The Good Old Days?
By: Jeffrey Gallagher - Starting With Scripture"Churches know a little something about pining for the good old days, don’t we?" — Rev. Dr. Jeffrey ...
11/11/2019 - Painful and Grace-filled
By: Matthew Crebbin - Starting With Scripture"It is now our calling my friends. It is a holy calling – one filled with grief and grace." — Rev. Matt ...
11/04/2019 - Children of God, Children of the Resurrection
By: Zachary Mabe - Starting With Scripture"Remember who you are, and 'put feet on your prayers.'" — Rev. Zachary Mabe
10/28/2019 - Transforming Love
By: Isaac Lawson - Starting With Scripture"I’m sometimes disappointed that transgression is not a fruit of the spirit." — Rev. Isaac Lawson
10/21/2019 - Seeing The Other
By: Andrew Page - Starting With Scripture"The word 'immigrant' further divides us as a nation, making 'others' a more explicit notion that drifts ...
10/11/2019 - The Power of Persistence
By: Sara Ofner-Seals - Starting With Scripture"Church, we may grow weary at times, but let us take heart in the knowledge that we are not alone." — ...
10/04/2019 - Thankful for Healing
By: Lee Ireland - Starting With Scripture"Have we been healed? Have we thanked God for the healings?" — Rev. Lee Ireland
09/27/2019 - Take A Deep Breath
By: Zachary Mabe - Starting With Scripture"Some of my best laughs came three years ago when I realized how frustrated I was getting at the lack of ...
09/23/2019 - Says Who?
By: Alison Buttrick Patton - Starting With Scripture"Ignoring the voices that make us uncomfortable is surely not the answer." — Rev. Alison Buttrick Patton
09/16/2019 - Prayers for Other and Ourselves
By: Shepard Parsons - Starting With Scripture"When we pray for others we are also praying for ourselves." — Rev. Shepard Parsons
09/09/2019 - Mercy in the Middle
By: Shawn Fisher - Starting With Scripture"We have a Mercy problem in America today." — Rev. Shawn Fisher
09/01/2019 - Incalculable
By: Todd Grant Yonkman - Starting With Scripture"The true costs of following a cal are incalculable." — Rev. Dr. Todd Grant Yonkman
08/26/2019 - Musical Chairs
By: Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager - Starting With ScriptureJesus plays a musical chairs of sorts on the community banquet. —Rev. Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager