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Feb 28, 2023

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Quaker Testimony: Resources from Jim Fussell

This fall and winter, Friend Jim Fussell led five sessions on Quaker Testimony for us as an adult Sunday School opportunity. Jim...

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Clarification, Purification, Preparation

Feb 26, 2023

Clarification, Purification, Preparation

Last week when Lucy Price spoke, she reminded us of the season known as Lent, the season we have now entered. Lucy made the standard Quaker

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Lucy Price

Feb 19, 2023

Stephanie Crumley Effinger

Lillies & Acorns

I. Consider the Lilies! A. Here in the North Country • Bulbs are all safely underground • Last week's thaw is not the beginning of spring

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Feb 5, 2023

The Evil Weakening & the Good Raised Up

There is a common theme between the passage read by Sussie from the prophet Isaiah in the Hebrew Scriptures, also known as the Old Testament

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Jan 1, 2023

The Gifts We Bring

Isn’t this a wonderful story? There’s so much in it that stirs the imagination: a star rising in the east, a spiritual quest, a clandestine

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Dec 24, 2022

Good News of Great Joy

It’s good to be with all of you this evening, though the weather conditions mean that our Zoom congregation is much larger than our in-perso

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Oct 23, 2022

Praying Where We Are

Have you ever had someone take your words and distort them, either because of honest misunderstanding, or willful intent? If you have, and y

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Oct 15, 2022

The Law Written Upon the Heart

It was once said that, were the Bible to be lost—all of its various manuscripts and translations somehow destroyed—that it could be recovere

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Oct 8, 2022

Glory Revealed

Quiet calm on surface…deep river…swirling, powerful, passion Good morning, Friends, When was the last time you saw the glory of God? Saw it

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Sep 10, 2022

Well-Practiced Love

About twenty-five years ago, Friends from various Yearly Meetings and organizations called a special conference on voluntary service that wa

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Aug 6, 2022

The Great Faith of Abraham

Message for worship at West Richmond Friends Meeting, 7th of Eighth Month, 2022 Speaker: Robert Wafula Scripture: Genesis 22:1-2 After...

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Jul 16, 2022

Nelson Bingham

Love Your Enemies

Message for worship at West Richmond Friends Meeting, 17th of Seventh Month, 2022 Speaker: Nelson Bingham Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48 “You...

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Welling Hall

Jun 18, 2022

A Liberative Reading of Philemon

Dear Friends, How delightful to meet with you this morning in a way that has become customary for us. Although I would love to be with you

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The City, the Temple, the River, the Tree

May 21, 2022

The City, the Temple, the River, the Tree

The Quaker scholar Wess Daniels has written a fair bit on Revelation, on the passage that we just heard, and the book as a whole. One of the

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May 14, 2022

Kingdom Come

Yesterday my younger grandson, Silas, who is on the autism spectrum,1 turned twelve years old. As an infant in his crib, Silas lined up his

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May 7, 2022

Listening for the Voice of the Shepherd

Some years ago, I was asked to help clerk a couple of meetings for discernment for a small Friends Meeting that was struggling. The meeting

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Apr 16, 2022

The Negative Space of the Tomb

Today is the day we celebrate resurrection. Today we remember that Jesus, who willingly went to his death on the cross, and was laid in the

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Apr 9, 2022

The Things That Make for Peace

Today we’ve heard Luke's account of what is often called, “The Triumphal Entry,” the story of Jesus' coming into Jerusalem prior to the time

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Apr 2, 2022