04/12/2021 - Experience
By: Susan Latourette - Starting With Scripture"Language can either welcome or repulse depending upon one’s background and experience." — Rev. Sue ...
Devotionals
Devotionals
04/05/2021 - In The Mess
By: Amelia Nugent Edson - Starting With Scripture"Jesus appears not to those who dutifully believe, but to the one who is authentic enough to voice ...
03/29/2021 - Walking the Hard Days
By: Lee Ireland - Starting With Scripture"What was guiding Jesus as he walked the hard days?" — Rev. Lee Ireland
03/22/2021 - Save Us
By: Eric Elley - Starting With Scripture"I don’t think you can ever shout hosanna! sweetly." — Rev. Eric Elley
03/15/2021 - Righteous Anger
By: Elizabeth Magill - Starting With Scripture"Yelling at my computer is not an example of righteous anger." — Rev. Liz Magill
03/08/2021 - Back to Tinkertoys
By: Elizabeth Chandler Felts - Starting With Scripture"There’s something to be said for going back to the Tinkertoys." — Rev. Elizabeth Chandler Felts
03/01/2021 - Rebuilding Our Temples
By: Kristen Provost-Switzer - Starting With Scripture"We will build our temples again when it is time." — Rev. Kristen Provost Switzer
02/22/2021 - Remembering Covenant
By: Nina Barlow Schmid - Starting With Scripture"Let us re-remember covenant and become re-educated about what it truly means." — Rev. Nina Barlow Schmid
02/15/2021 - It Has Been a Long Lent!
By: Matthew Crebbin - Starting With Scripture"I have learned the hard way that untamed journeys have little regard for my sensibilities." — Rev. ...
02/08/2021 - The Light In Some
By: Kevin Williams - Starting With Scripture"That light is there all the time. And the thing is, the more we focus on seeing it, the more we can ...
02/01/2021 - We Are Great
By: Frances Bogle - Starting With ScriptureRev. Dr. Fran Bogle is a community chaplain and coordinates the Just Peace Player liturgical drama ...
01/25/2021 - Enduring
By: Kurt Walker - Starting With Scripture"Our God is a God who makes the “never out-of-date, never obsolete, rust-proof” products of truth and ...
01/18/2021 - Power That's Kind
By: Mobby Larson - Starting With Scripture"We need to trust in power, but only when that power is paired with kindness."— Rev. Dr. Mobby Larson
01/11/2021 - Watchful Eyes
By: Timothy Haut - Starting With Scripture"I am being watched by love's eyes." — Rev. Tim Haut
01/04/2021 - Proclaim Your Name
By: Sue Foster - Starting With Scripture"What is your name?" — Rev. Dr. Susan J. Foster
12/28/2020 - The End of the Story
By: Brenda Pelc-Faszcza - Starting With Scripture"This year, we just might remember better that, of course, there is no 'The End.'" — Rev. Dr. Brenda ...
12/21/2020 - I Will Greatly Rejoice
By: Jocelyn B. Gardner Spencer - Starting With Scripture"And also this: your whole being shall exult." —Rev. Jocelyn Gardner Spencer
12/14/2020 - Passionate, Wild, even Revolutionary?
By: Allie Perry - Starting With Scripture"What does faithfulness look like, for such a time as this?"— Rev. Allie Perry
12/07/2020 - Of Murphy and Mary – and Hope
By: Erick Olsen - Starting With Scripture"Who do you want to be when you’re older?" — Rev. Erick Olsen
11/30/2020 - Now Is The Time
By: Susan Latourette - Starting With Scripture"We are the preparers of the way." — Rev. Sue Latourette
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
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