Order of worship — January 4, 2026
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Second Sunday of Christmas — January 4, 2026
What does predestination really mean? Ephesians 1:3–14 invites us to see election as adoption, belonging and God’s choosing love, writes Matthew Rich.
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost — October 19, 2025
Jeremiah 31:27-34 reminds us that God’s covenant is not carved in stone but engraved on our hearts — a radical call to truth, forgiveness, and embodied love, writes Matthew A. Rich.
Order of worship — October 19, 2025
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Fifth Sunday in Lent — April 6, 2025
Matthew A. Rich explores what joy looks like in Lent.
Order of worship — October 27, 2024
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Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost — October 27, 2024
Matthew A. Rich writes on loneliness and belonging in Jeremiah 31:7-9.
What baseball can teach the church about faithful change
Can the church embrace change without losing its core identity? Matthew Rich looks at MLB for inspiration.
Palm Sunday — March 24, 2024
"We want salvation now and the celebration to begin today. But sometimes the colt goes around in circles, and we have to start again tomorrow," writes Matthew A. Rich.
Order of worship — March 24, 2024
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Dad, will you be in “The Nutcracker”?
In an unexpected casting of Drosselmeyer, Matt Rich finds – in life and in ministry – the role you think you are going to play might not be the role you get.
6th Sunday of Easter — May 22, 2022
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The churches in your neighborhood
Even before the pandemic, I started recording and sharing a short video each week for our congregation to introduce Sunday’s Scripture and..
What can separate us?
Guest commentary by Matthew A. Rich On Wednesday, July 25, 2018, 17-year-old Sarah Rhoads was killed in a tragic car accident. A..
To those who are not present
Most Sunday mornings after proclaiming the benediction, I walk with the acolyte down the sanctuary’s center aisle.
Through the cross joy came into the world
Jesus makes many bold promises in the Gospels, but perhaps none is more audacious than when he tells his disciples, “So you have pain now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you” (John 16:22).
You are worth saving (and your neighbor is too)
They shall name him Emmanuel – which means “God is with us” (Matthew 1:23).
Trying to say what is true
Almost two million. That is my best estimate of the number of words I have written for sermons, weddings, funerals, a book, articles, reviews, presentations and Bible studies since my ordination as a Minister of Word and Sacrament 16-and-a-half years ago.
He hid from them
“After Jesus had said this; he departed and hid from them.” John 12:36b
Being the church tomorrow
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has been talking about marriage the entire time I have been ordained as a pastor.