by Rev. Joanne Gilbert-Cannon | Jan 27, 2025 | Pastor's Blog
Dear Friends: Several people have asked me for ideas on dealing with anxiety and worry. My first advice is to pray. This is not a “please give me…” prayer so much as a conversation with a friend. “God, I am worried, scared, feeling powerless. Help me.”...
by Rev. Joanne Gilbert-Cannon | Jan 11, 2025 | Pastor's Blog
Dear Friends: Today, I offer a brief story and a poem. During the pandemic, when we were all shut up and shut down, for some reason I wasn’t even aware of, I stopped singing. Times I would have normally belted out a hymn (in church, in the car, in the...
by Rev. Joanne Gilbert-Cannon | May 8, 2024 | Pastor's Blog
Dear Friends: On Sunday May 5th , I preached a sermon on how we get through the next six months of this political campaign cycle with faith, hope and love, intact. We are a divided people, even here at church and we need some strategies of navigating these...
by Rev. Joanne Gilbert-Cannon | Dec 14, 2023 | Pastor's Blog
Dear Friends: The second Sunday of Advent encourages us with the theme of Peace.Whoa…where is there any of that?I looked around and found more than I thought I would, here are just a few:Baptist Peace Fellowship of NA-Bautistas por la PazAgentsofpeace.orgUnited...
by Rev. Joanne Gilbert-Cannon | Dec 11, 2023 | Pastor's Blog
Dear Friends: I went into my Chiropractors office (yes, again!) And this time it was blankNo words, no pictures, no advice, no thoughtful quote. Empty. White. Space. Tocontemplate. I realized that’s us. I wondered if I walked around with a dry wipe board...
by Rev. Joanne Gilbert-Cannon | Dec 6, 2023 | Pastor's Blog
Dear Friends: The first Sunday of Advent has come and gone. I was struggling for hope in this war-torn, uncivil, divided world of ours but my task was to offer the congregation a sermon full of Hope. I shared some thoughts of Nadia Boltz Weber, a blogger and...
