Our church’s Annual Membership meeting will be held on Sunday, February 23, 2020 after 10 AM Worship Service. Please save the date and plan to attend! The Annual Report should be ready for distribution during the first week of February.
As we wrestle in Hawai’i with the shocking news of murder and arson near Diamond Head, we hear the Psalmist ask: “Whom shall I fear?” Here’s a transcript: I’m thinking about how a Sunday in Honolulu, just below the majesty of Diamond Head, became the setting for violence, for fire, for death. My prayers are […]
January 19, 2020Second Sunday after the Epiphany John 1:29-42 by Eric Anderson Every once in a while I get introduced to someone. It usually goes something like this: “Let me introduce you. This is Eric Anderson. He’s the pastor at Church of the Holy Cross in Hilo.” Then I put on my best “I’m not […]
The next Service Day for cleaning and beautifying our church campus is scheduled for Saturday, January 25, 2020 from 8:30 to 1:00 pm. More hands make for lighter work! Thank you for pitching in in whatever way you can. Click here to view the Service Day flyer.
When John the Baptist began to “introduce” Jesus to his followers, he opened the question we’ve been asking ever since: Who is Jesus? Here’s a transcript: Belatedly, I wish you a very Happy New Year. My prayer is that the struggles and trials that 2020 has already brought to us on the national and international […]
January 12, 2020Baptism of Jesus Matthew 3:13-17 by Eric Anderson Jesus went to the Jordan River, to the place where John the Baptist ranted and roared about the sinfulness of those who came to hear him. Here’s what he told the most respected religious leaders of his day when they ventured to the riverside: “You […]
December 24, 2019Christmas EveLuke 2:1-16 by Eric Anderson What an evening we have had! It’s been filled with amazing music shared in different languages. It’s been filled with the ancient story of a Savior’s birth in Bethlehem. It’s been filled with people we love and people we don’t know; here we are, filling this house […]
Luke and all his contemporaries knew where a savior should be born – and it wasn’t in a stable. Yet that, said Luke, is the way God works. Here’s a transcript: “And while Mary and Joseph were in Bethlehem, the time came for her to be delivered. And she gave birth to her first born […]
December 22, 2019Fourth Sunday of AdventMatthew 1:18-25 by Eric Anderson All the stories of Jesus’ birth have something in common: the unpredictability of it all, the intrusiveness of it all, the world-overturning plans-unmaking you-may-have-had-your-ideas-of-what-would-happen-but-I-am-God-and-I-will-get-my-way of it all. Consider Joseph. Unlike Luke, whose Gospel concentrates on Mary, Matthew tells the story of Jesus’ birth from Joseph’s […]
December 18, 2019 Some years ago my mother-in-law contributed mashed potatoes to a family Christmas meal for the first time. They were gently seasoned with garlic, so subtly that the precise flavor was hard to identify but so uniquely delicious that the first mouthful raised gasps around the table. Years later, it fell to me […]
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