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Tartan Sunday is a Sunday that the Presbyterian Church here in Baldwin takes time out to consider the historical roots of Presbyterian faith in the ministry of John Knox in Scotland. In our P.C. (USA) Book of Confessions (which helps guide the way we interpret our faith) one of the earliest documents is the Scots [...]

This past Mothers Day in worship we thought about words of Jesus from John’s Gospel “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another.  Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.  By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for [...]

I’ve always had a place in my affection for the disciple Thomas, or ‘Doubting Thomas’ as he became known. We reflected on his experience of the resurrection as we met around the table for communion this past Sunday. Notes from the sermon can be found here. I find that there is a huge part of [...]

We celebrated our Easter services this past Sunday. The sermon for the day can be found here. For a brief period after we were first married my wife and I attended an Elim Pentecostal Church in West Kirby, England. The Elim denomination had purchased the building from the Presbyterians and the notice board outside still [...]

This past Sunday we begin our journey through Holy Week with our Palm Sunday service. We reflected on the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem riding on a donkey. Our sermon can be found here. It is a sad reflection on human nature how quickly the cries of ‘Hosanna’ turn to cries of ‘Crucify’. How easily [...]

We held our 4th youth sleepover Friday night 8th April through to Saturday morning 9th April.  The early part of the evening was spent baking cookies and brownies. Around midnight the cookies were taken to staff at the emergency rooms at South Nassau and Mercy Hospitals and to the Baldwin Police precinct as a way [...]

Despite the lack of blogs the last few weeks have been busy times at First Presbyterian of Baldwin! This coming Sunday our Children present an abridged version of ‘Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ during morning worship. This past Sunday we came together around the communion table and reflected on the experience of Barabbas. (Notes [...]

Not the classic song… but the vision of Jacob in Genesis 28:10-22 as he lay with his head on a stone in the wilderness. Our sermon from last Sunday can be found here. Verse 16 of the Genesis passage reads; ‘When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, [...]

This past Sunday as we gathered together around the communion table we explored the question “Who did Jesus die for?” Normally I’d post the sermon, but as it was as much visual as spoken, there was no transcript. However one of the verses we focused upon was from Romans 5:8  “God demonstrates His love for [...]

It seems that common to all people are those days when we think “Why bother.  Nothing that we can do can make a difference.” Our sermon (which can be found here) took the title “Can we heal the world?” The Kingdom of God appears to invade our world not through the big things but the [...]