First Presbyterian Church of Valparaiso

Holy Week has always been fascinating to me. The excitement of Palm Sunday, the significance of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy...

Our Adult Faith Formation class meets each Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. Our location has moved a few times, we’ve added new folks, our...

“Honey, THE BLUE BIRDS ARE BACK!!” I exclaimed on a sort of dreary late February morning a few days ago while impatiently waiting for...

The forty-day period of Lent is traditionally a time when we strengthen our spiritual lives so that we are more able to experience the...

Have you ever had this experience? You’re doing a Bible study or using a devotional, and you come across a piece of scripture you’ve...

It is hard to argue that the recent ‘mild’ weather is most unusual for this time of year. Maybe Punxsutawney Phil is right…apparently...

New Year… New You!!! Does anyone else dislike that statement as much as I do? I mean we are the same person we were when we went to bed...

“You have made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.” -Psalm 104:19 It was a sunny morning, one of the few...

If you happen to be reading this early on Friday morning when this week’s “First Notes” probably hit your email inbox, then let me be one...

By the time you read this Advent will have passed, yet I enjoyed the theme of Generation to Generation, and the advent devotional book...