Hunting Ridge Presbyterian Church

1 Samuel 2:1-10       Steph moved here almost 30 years ago from western Pennsylvania.  Her family has always remained in the farming area outside of Pittsburgh.  She came to marry a Baltimore boy.  After only 7 and half years of marriage, her husband died.  She has stayed here and eked out a living at various jobs, working the last 14 years at a bar in Parkville.  When the house her apartment was in was sold about 10 years ago, she moved into an apartment above the bar where she works.  Now she finds herself with no job, with eviction papers and a BGE shutoff notice, unable to drive her vehicle without insurance.  Steph is throwing in the towel and going home.  She really has no other recourse.  When we met her she was not crying, but she could have been.  Continue reading “Why are you crying? October 23, 2016” →

Sermon preached 9.25.16 on Genesis 37 and Genesis 50:     Joseph was a tattle tale.  I am going to assume that tattling is an almost universal experience.  We have all been tattled on–even if you are an only child, surely there was a cousin or an uncle who tattled on you at least once.  We have tattled on others.  Remember that time your brother broke the glass plate hanging on the wall?  Mom had to know who did it.  And most of us have heard the reports of a tattler at some point in our lives and had to make a decision on how to respond to the report.

We are coming in on the tail end of this family history.  Remember we started with Abram and Sarai, who were childless and homeless?  Continue reading “Bearing Grudges” →