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.
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6th Sunday of Easter — May 22, 2022
On Sunday, May 22, at Unity Presbyterian Church we will celebrate our high school and college graduates.
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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.