Presbyterian Women Moderator States Plan for Moving Forward
Presbyterian Women Inc. installed its first Korean moderator, JyungIn “Jenny” Lee (center), along with Jo Ann Burrell, (left) as vice moderator for Mission Relationships and Joy Durrant, (right) as...
View ArticleGod’s Promise: I Am With You Lesson Five
Lesson Five: God with Us When We Are Powerless Primary Scripture: 2 Chronicles 20:1–30; Deuteronomy 20:1–4 In the beginning of December a friend of mine said, “I keep thinking how heavy the holidays...
View ArticleGod’s Promise: I Am With You Lesson Six
Lesson Six: God with Us Through Our Trials Primary Scripture: Isaiah 41:8–13; Isaiah 43:1–7; Psalm 46:1–11 After wending its way through five lessons and ten different Bible stories, the God’s Promise...
View ArticleRacial Equity Statement
The Board of Directors of Presbyterian Women, Inc. changed the name of the Anti-Racism Committee to the Racial Equity Committee (REC) because it is important to state what PW, Inc. stands for, as...
View ArticleGod’s Promise: I Am With You Lesson Seven
Lesson Seven: God with Us as Emmanuel Primary Scripture: Isaiah 7:10–16; Matthew 1:18–25 Nativity, He Qi The seventh lesson of the God’s Promise study brings a significant shift. For those of us who...
View ArticleGod’s Promise: I Am With You Lesson Eight
Lesson Eight: God with Us as the Holy Spirit Primary Scripture: John 14:16–20 Holy Spirit Coming, He Qi Lesson Eight brings God’s promise of presence solidly into our present. In Jesus’ farewell...
View ArticleGod’s Promise: I Am With You Lesson Nine
Lesson Nine: God With Us Primary Scripture: Matthew 18:15–20 and 28:16–20 Just as Jesus’ words to his disciples in Matthew 28:16–20 send them out into the world, we too are sent out into the world...
View ArticleLove Carved in Stone Lesson One
Lesson One — Words of Love: I Am Your God; You Shall Have No Others The First and Second Words Primary Scripture: Exodus 20:1–6 and Matthew 22:34–37 God is Your One and Only Love and Nothing Else Will...
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Lesson Two — Words of Love: Don’t Trivialize My NameThe Third Word Primary Scripture: Exodus 20:7 and Matthew 7:21–23 No Mischief with the Name The first word that Jesus speaks in Mark’s Gospel is...
View ArticleLove Carved in Stone Lesson Three
Lesson Three — Words of Love: Keep SabbathThe Fourth Word Primary Scripture: Exodus 20:8-11, Deuteronomy 5:12-15; and Mark 2:23-28 Just Stop Life has a rhythm. It moves and slows. It rises and falls...
View ArticleLove Carved in Stone Lesson Four
Lesson Four — Words of Love: Honor the Life-GiversThe Fifth Word Primary Scripture: Exodus 20:12, and Luke 9:57-62 It Takes a Crash Several years ago while I was leading a retreat on the Ten Words a...
View ArticleLove Carved in Stone Lesson Five
Lesson Five — Words of Love: Don’t Kill Each OtherThe Sixth Word Primary Scripture: Exodus 20:13, and Matthew 5:21-26 No murder: A Checklist This lesson on murder may be difficult for your group...
View ArticleLove Carved in Stone Lesson Six
Lesson Six — Words of Love: Hold Your Marriages SacredThe Seventh Word Primary Scripture: Exodus 20:14, Genesis 2:18–25, and John 8:1–11 Worthy Relationships There is little in the human experience...
View ArticleLove Carved in Stone Lesson Seven
Lesson Seven — Words of Love: Do Not StealThe Eighth Word Primary Scripture: Exodus 20:15 and Matthew 25:31–46 To Catch a Thief How do we steal from others the things that give their lives dignity?...
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Lesson Eight — Words of Love: Speak TruthfullyThe Ninth Word Primary Scripture: Exodus 20:16, Deuteronomy 5:20 and Matthew 12:36–37 What is Truth? “Baby, do these pants make my butt look big?” My...
View ArticleLove Carved in Stone Lesson Nine
Lesson Nine — Words of Love: Don’t Fixate on What You Don’t HaveThe Tenth Word Primary Scripture: Exodus 20:17 (18–21), 1 Kings 21:1–16; and Luke 12:13–15 Enough is Enough This last of the ten holy...
View ArticleMessage from the PW Churchwide Moderator
Greetings and Peace! We are living in a unique and unprecedented time. Certainly, none of us has walked this road nor even seen it before. This situation with the coronavirus is changing so rapidly,...
View ArticleReaffirming Presbyterian Women’s Stance Against Racism
Jesus answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”—Luke 10:27...
View ArticleInto the Light Lesson One
Lesson One: The Heart of Lament Focus Scripture: Psalm 22:1–19 and Matthew 27:45–56 Singing Our Lives Songs in the Key of Life, that’s the name of Steve Wonder’s landmark 1976 album. It’s one of my...
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Lesson Two: Lamenting Together Focus Scripture: Psalm 137 Learning to Sing the Lord’s Song—Together The human brain builds new knowledge on the scaffold of what it already knows. It is a process that...
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