May 13, 2012 6th Sunday of Easter Riviera Presbyterian Church Acts 10:44-48 Laurie A. Kraus I, 2, and 3 John Bad Love? There are a whole genre of songs from my adolescence that express the sentiment I am calling this morning “Bad Love.” Bad Love is one such tune; another is Love Hurts. In lieu [...]
Join us this Sunday, May 13, 2012: Lectionary Reading – Acts 10:14-48; I and II John Sermon:”Bad Love?” Rev. Dr. Laurie A. Kraus
Good morning Riviera family! Our Women’s Bible Study group will be meeting this Thursday night at 7 pm on the 2nd… http://t.co/5WjY47PL
May 5, 2012 Riviera Presbyterian Church I John 4:7-21 Laurie Ann Kraus $3.00 Worth of God” Keith Green, an evangelical singer whose music used to challenge and disturb me when I was a Baptist teenager, once said this: Americans have been inoculated with a slight case of Christianity that is preventing them from getting the [...]
Just a reminder that we are having first Sunday lunch on May 6 after worship. Please bring a dish to share…. http://t.co/2uOM8Tqf
Sunday Worship Service: Sunday, May 6, 2012: Lectionary Reading –1 John 4:7-21; Sermon: “$3.00 Worth of God” by Rev. Dr. Laurie A. Kraus
April 29, 2012 4th Easter, Good Shepherd Sunday Riviera Presbyterian Church Laurie Ann Kraus Psalm 23 A Wake of Goodness and Mercy The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want…. He makes me Lie down in green pastures Leads me beside still waters Restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his [...]
How convenient it must be to lay your own narrowness and smallness off on God, to accept no responsibility for the niggardly nature of your own soul. Vines’ video is a welcome, overdue and eloquent rebuke of the moral and intellectual laziness of throwing rocks, then hiding inside Scripture. It is a reminder, too.
For the past 18 months, my study leave time has been devoted to participation in a course of training for spiritual directors. In March, a few days before my mother passed away, I completed that course of training, graduated, and was certified by Stillpoint, the Center for Christian Spirituality, as a Spiritual Director. In the [...]
May 2012 Newsletter
