Pastor’s blog – November 2023

Those shiny headstones! If you’ve been by Salem lately, I’m sure you’ve noticed a change in a portion of the cemetery.  Recently, the Cemetery Committee contracted a company to clean the headstones in one of our older sections.  This section is right beside the road...

Pastor’s blog – June 2023

Faithful stewards During the month of June, our sermon time in worship will be a bit different.  We will be going through a series called “Living an Abundant Life”.  The purpose of this series is to invite and encourage us to remember that being a faithful steward in...

Pastor’s blog – May 2023

Come, Holy Spirit… Every morning during breakfast I play a little game on my phone called Wordle.  It’s an online game where you have 6 chances to figure out a 5-letter word.  If you select a correct letter that’s in the right spot, the letter turns green, if you...

Pastor’s blog – April 2023

Holy Week This year, Holy Week begins on April 2nd with Palm Sunday.  We’ll begin worship that day by waving palm branches from the steps of the church and then into the sanctuary.  It marks the beginning of Holy Week and all that unfolds in the story of the...

Pastor’s blog – March 2023

Lent and the kingdom of heaven In looking at the upcoming readings during the Sundays of Lent, it strikes me that we’re going to be talking a lot about the “kingdom of heaven”.  Matthew uses the phrase kingdom of heaven thirty-two times, and is the only gospel writer...

Pastor’s blog – February 2023

Sore Toes Luke 12: 13-21 tells the parable of a farmer who is blessed with an abundant crop, it’s such an abundant harvest that he decides to tear down his old barns and build bigger ones.  By doing this, he can sit back, relax, drink, and be merry!  But then the...