Pastor Jess Scholten
Pastor's Pondering - November 20, 2020
Dear friends – Sunday is a special service – I hope you will join us. It combines two very important reminders. One is Thanksgiving....
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Nov 13, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering - November 13, 2020
Dear friends - I usually love experiencing new things. Tom and I like to travel, and we often plan our own trips and book our own...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Nov 6, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering - November 6, 2020
Dear friends - On this Friday of election week, we sit with ambiguity in a way in which not all of us are comfortable. What is most clear...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Oct 29, 2020
- 2 min
Pastor's Pondering - October 30, 2020
Dear friends - With the upcoming election and our state of pandemic, we are (tritely - now more than ever) acutely aware of our diversity...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Oct 23, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering -October 23, 2020
Dear friends - What a joy it has been all month long to celebrate your good stewardship and the meaningful ways River Glen is making a...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Oct 16, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering - October 16, 2020
Dear friends - What a great joy Wednesday evening was! Thank you for dropping off boots and coats for Longwood as well as many cash...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Oct 8, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering - October 9, 2020
Dear friends - This week marks the Feast of St. Francis. We don't celebrate saint feasts in the same way as our Catholic, Episcopal, and...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Oct 1, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering - October 2, 2020
Dear friends - Thank you for your prayers, cards, and thoughts over the last two weeks. I'm ever mindful in these days of the continual...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Sep 25, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering - September 25, 2020
With our new season of fall, enjoy two of these blessings from, "O Antiphons for Autumn," from Joyce Rupp's collection, The Circle of...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Sep 25, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering - September 18, 2020
Dear friends - I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks. Vacation is always a reminder for gratitude for so many reasons. One is simply...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Sep 10, 2020
- 2 min
Pastor's Pondering - September 11, 2020
Dear friends - My parents have some apple trees in their front yard that they have to pay close attention to - a few times over the years...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Sep 4, 2020
- 2 min
Pastor's Pondering - September 4, 2020
Dear friends - My dad and I had tickets to a Cubs game this Sunday that I won in a raffle last January, operative word: had. It's a...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Aug 27, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering - August 28, 2020
Dear friends – Our ruling elders were invited this past week to write a letter to the Session using a little bit of creativity, as if...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Aug 20, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering - August 21, 2020
Dear friends - It was a great joy to have outdoor worship on Sunday evening. We could not have asked for better weather, and it was...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Aug 14, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering - August 14, 2020
Dear friends - In the face of conflict, it's easy for us to ignore what's happening or be too overwhelmed to know what to do. In the...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Aug 6, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering - August 7, 2020
Dear friends - Outside is the place to be these days, so we are looking forward to outdoor worship on Sunday, August 16. Typically, we...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Jul 30, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering - July 31, 2020
Dear friends, Thank you for your excellent response to the survey concerning in-person worship. This insight helped the Session greatly...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Jul 24, 2020
- 2 min
Pastor's Pondering - July 24, 2020
Dear friends - Covid-19 is making for some real weird times. For the most part, everything fun about being a minister is pretty much...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Jul 17, 2020
- 1 min
Pastor's Pondering - July 17, 2020
Dear friends – Let's talk spiritual formation. Spiritual formation is how you are being formed more fully into Christ - to embody what it...
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Pastor Jess Scholten
- Jul 10, 2020
- 2 min
Pastor's Pondering - July 12th, 2020
I'm more and more aware these days of the depth of grief we're experiencing in Covid-19, what we ministers have come...
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