Joy Written by Katherine Rouse “Don’t postpone joy” became my mantra at an early age without even knowing it. And then I became an Asheville resident and as soon as I saw that bumper sticker at Laurey’s on Biltmore Avenue I knew I was in the right place. Then I found this wonderful piece of […]
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Cookies & Carols Last night our fellowship hall was again filled with good food — in this case, cookies! — and with a diverse group of church folks and college folks and other folks, as we all gathered together to sing the beautiful carols of this Christmas season. Cookies & Carols is one of the
Peace Written by Bill Heck Come Lord Jesus, Prince of Peace. Hear our pleas. Do not forget us. Remind us to laugh more often and complain far less. Excise from our vocabulary the pronoun “I” and replace it with “WE”. Reveal to us something each day for which we can be grateful. Inspire us to
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Hope Written by Edythe Wiener Hope…What a grand word that is. I think that life and hope are thoroughly intertwined. Our life needs hope to survive. For without it, living can become dismal and even desperate. We tend to trivialize the word hope and use it by habit much of the time…. I hope it
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We Get Ready for Advent! Friday, December 1 was a wonderful day of fellowship. Many of us gathered around 2:30pm to clean and decorate the church for the Advent and Christmas seasons. There were snacks for us to enjoy along with some music playing. As you can see in the photos below, the final results
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Earlier this week, the Christian writer and activist John Pavlovitz posted an image on his Twitter feed that made me laugh out loud. It was a photo of a purple baseball cap. The inscription on the front of the cap read: Make Advent Great Again. (So, technically, MAGA.) I was so taken with this image,
Have you ever wondered how our church’s Thanksgiving tradition began? “All is safely gathered in, now let the winter storms begin” words to a familiar Hymn has set the tone for 83 years the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Bernhard Laursen, a Dane who had immigrated to Boston and became a citizen, came to teach and work
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You will likely not be surprised to learn that the word “holiday” comes from the Middle English words for “holy” and “day.” So, on one hand, it is entirely appropriate to say that our holiday season has officially begun here at Warren Wilson Presbyterian, for we have some truly holy days coming up over the
Words of Remembrance and Hope: in Honor of John Williams Rev. Dr. Steve Runholt October 18, 2017 What do you say about a man who rarely spoke? What words do you use to describe someone so quiet, who used so few words, as John Williams? Turns out, the range of possibilities is surprisingly wide. Allee
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Dear friends, Yesterday we woke up to the news that yet another mass shooting had occurred overnight, this one in Las Vegas, and the worst one yet–the loss of life and the number wounded staggeringly high. It’s hard to know what to say in response to such a grotesque, large-scale act of violence,
