by Guy Sayles | May 6, 2014 |
Here is the Call to Stewardship from this past Sunday. Some of you had asked to see it again: Commodities, things, labor, experiences and gifts all have cost, price, value, and worth. Cost is the amount of money it takes to plant and harvest, mine,...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 22, 2014 |
Not long after I came to Asheville, the Republican Men’s Club of Buncombe County invited me to their breakfast meeting to tell them about myself and my hopes for our church’s future. It’s not my practice to speak at meetings, formal or informal, of political...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 21, 2014 |
We have a deep and pressing need for hope. It takes hope for parents to bring a baby into the world, to hold a little one in their arms and to become, from that child’s first breath, the people most responsible for providing what that child needs and for shaping...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 14, 2014 |
Take heart and hope from the promises of this Holy Week: when you feel good and glad, Jesus joins your parade of celebration. When you gather at the table with people who love you, Jesus is there; he serves you the bread, and he offers you the cup. When...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 12, 2014 |
Several years ago, I realized that, for a long time, I had been fighting-back tears whenever I would see children run gleefully around a playground or hear them squeal with delight as they played, or notice their wonder over wildflowers, squirrels and birdsong. ...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 4, 2014 |
As I make my slow way through this frequently labored and often labyrinthine Lenten season, I am grateful that Resurrection lures us toward the future which it has already opened-up. Light and hope stream into our present circumstances; they show us that love is...
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