by Cindy Courtney | Sep 5, 2018 | Minister Notes
REGATHERING I love Sunday mornings… the quiet moments before the gates are thrown wide and the wonder of the Sabbath starts in earnest… happy voices in the hallways heading off to prepare for the day… the jolt of excitement as the morning’s ministry...
by Cindy Courtney | Jun 19, 2018 | Minister Notes
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them – yet you have made them a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and...
by Cindy Courtney | May 16, 2018 | Minister Notes
What a fellowship, what a joy divine, leaning on the everlasting arms… I woke up this morning with that hymn in my head. How perfect! I’ve been living its spirit among you. The lively conversation of last night’s Church Committee buzzed with excitement for...
by Cindy Courtney | Apr 11, 2018 | Minister Notes
What a welcome! Thank you to all who have made my first weeks at Second Congregational Church so warmly inviting and endearingly full! From my “shadowing” time with Pastor David to vicariously reliving Confirmation with Pastor Bill and Alice, from touring town with...
by Cindy Courtney | Mar 9, 2018 | Minister Notes
Harry Emerson Fosdick, a minister of the Presbyterian Church in New York, on the occasion of his retirement from the pastoral ministry in the middle of the last century reflected on the unique joys of the pastoral life by saying, “If I had a thousand lives to live in...
by Cindy Courtney | Feb 15, 2018 | Minister Notes
A Lenten Challenge Lauren Winner teaches at Duke Divinity School and published her book on faith crisis, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis (HarperOne, 2012). She has written about Lent: “We will try to go with Jesus into the desert, to devote ourselves…. To...
