11/23/2020 - Come Down
By: Bob LaRochelle - Starting With Scripture"This Advent, we... might kind of feel out of place." — Rev. Dr. Robert LaRochelle
Devotionals
Devotionals
11/16/2020 - Sheep or Goats?
By: Amelia Nugent Edson - Starting With Scripture"Goats and sheep can graze together..." —Rev. Amelia Nugent Edson
11/09/2020 - The God We Think We Know
By: Raymond Medeiros - Starting With Scripture"Sometimes, the God we think we know turns out to be the God we get." — Rev. Ray Medeiros
11/02/2020 - Just Keep Breathing
By: Alexander Shea Will - Starting With Scripture"Someone once told me that God’s name is in fact the sound we utter when we breathe." — Rev. Alex Shea ...
10/26/2020 - Upsy Down Truth
By: John Nelson - Starting With Scripture"'In Upsy Down Town the sky is in the sea'" – Rev. John Nelson
10/19/2020 - Keep Asking Questions
By: Ruth Shaver - Starting With Scripture"It isn’t enough to keep asking questions; we must ask honest questions and be willing to hear answers we...
10/12/2020 - Who Are You?
By: Kurt Walker - Starting With ScriptureRev. Kurt Walker is the Pastor of Chapel Street Congregational, UCC, in Lincoln, RI. Scripture: Matthew...
10/05/2020 - Ready, Set, Go, Big Jump!
By: Kate VanDerzee-GliddenRev. Kate VanDerzee-Glidden is Pastor of First Church of Christ Congregational, in Glastonbury, CT. ...
09/28/2020 - Parker or Porter?
By: Susan Thomas - Starting With Scripture"Thanks be to God, you’re here!" — Rev. Susan Thomas
09/21/2020 - Good Trouble
By: Elizabeth Chandler Felts - Starting With Scripture"Priests, elders, scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees -- all can be great hecklers, but so can Jesus." —Rev. ...
09/14/2020 - No Way To Run A Business
By: Matthew Crebbin - Starting With Scripture"Jesus would have never made it as an entrepreneur." — Rev. Matt Crebbin
09/07/2020 - Invitation
By: Lee Ireland - Starting With Scripture"Love and compassion don’t mean we just sit aside and let things unfold." — Rev. Lee Ireland
08/31/2020 - Step One
By: Zachary Mabe - Starting With Scripture"Saying something to someone's face with both honesty and love is one of the most powerful and meaningful...
08/24/2020 - Not Feeling It
By: Kristen Provost-Switzer - Starting With Scripture"Unpopular opinion of the day: I hate Fall." — Rev. Kristen Provost Switzer
08/17/2020 - Our Story Transformed
By: Katherine Adams - Starting With Scripture"None of us alone can be God’s heart and hands for this aching world." —Rev. Dr. Katherine Adams
08/10/2020 - Challenges and Difficulties
By: Matthew Fugate - Starting With Scripture"Challenges and difficulties are a routine aspect of our lives. It is easy to lose hope." — Rev. Brent ...
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
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...