Refiner's Fire

Worship June 28, 2026 with Rev. Gary Harrison

Love God and Love Your Neighbor

Refiner's Fire

Malachi 3:1-5 Rev. Beth Waldrup's farewell sermon Sunday, June 14, 2026. We wish her well in her retirement. We will miss her dearly.

The Real Power of a Broom

Most of think of a broom as a tool of cleaning up our homes or our churches. Certainly the Pharisees and scribes would like to use a broom to sweep away the people with whom Jesus was keeping company. So Jesus told them three parables. Let's look at the first two and discover how Jesus uses a broom.

Nothing Means Nothing

What is there about human beings that it always trying to compare ourselves to one another? That leads us to never ending distortion of thinking we know the limits of God's grace. We do not. I've heard tell people at a funeral that the deceased is in hell and if they do not repent, they will be there with him soon. How would he know? A grandmother came to see me one day because a group of kids told her eleven-year old grandson that his dad is in hell because he committed suicide. An adult taught them that and probably an adult in church. How would they know that? They may be limits to how we want to distribute grace but do not mistake our misunderstandings with God's limits.

The Anatomy of Hope

In the eighth chapter of Romans, Paul speaks of hope as something unseen. Today we live in a world that participates daily in the opposite of hope - cynicism. It is crushing us. But I have great hope today - hope in the cancer ward, hope in the church, and hope in our community.