Pastor’s Blog

Mark 1:1–8 Advent 2 B 12-6-2020 Pastor Bill Mosley Ed was a writer living in Honolulu in 1941. On Sunday morning, December 7, he was playing tennis. He said it took all of them a while to realize that “the air show” across the harbor was for real. By evening he had...

Mark 13:24-37 Pastor Bill Mosley     11/29/2020   It was Christmas day of 1983, a cold gray day, and hardly anyone was at the meat packing plant where I was a security guard.  I sat at the back gate where most days the employees streamed in and out wearing their...

Our Motto   Deut 26:1-11  Thanksgiving Pastor Bill Mosley   In the War of 1812, British forces captured Washington, DC and burned the capitol.  They took a prisoner named William Beanes.  In September of 1814, a Washington lawyer boarded the British prison ship...

Matthew 25:31-46 Christ the King    Rev. Bill Mosley  11/21/2020 Mexico City has a subway.  Bill Rishel said that when he was there in school, the subway was his main transportation.  During rush hours people are so crowded in the underground tunnels that every so...

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 (& 4:18) Pastor Bill Mosley    November 15, 2020   There’s an old story about the Greeks.  That a philosopher named Damocles gave banquets and feasts with the table set with sumptuous food beneath a sword hung from the ceiling by a...

Matthew 25: 1-13 Pastor Bill Mosley        11-8-20 Two Quaker elders of the old school travelled to a small rural meeting.  On the way back it began to snow heavily and their carriage became stuck in a snowbank.  The two elders finally made it to a farmhouse just as...