Thoughts from Jim Teague FPCE director of communications. Dear Friends – When we think about the toll war takes on a country or a city, we usually (rightly) think in terms of loss of life, injury, and the trauma inflicted on the soldiers and citizenry. We might extend those thoughts to the damage done
Thoughts from Jim Teague FPCE director of communications. I have always been a late bloomer, and the same has been true in my growth as a believer in Jesus. When my friend Larry first led me to give my life to Jesus Christ in college, the initial result was me living in a way that
Thoughts from Jim Teague FPCE director of communications. I recently read the book “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life” by author Anne Lamott. Truthfully, I didn’t read the book. As is my way more and more, I listened to it as an audiobook. This one was narrated by Lamott herself. Her unique
Thoughts from Rev. Dr. Tassie Green, Interim Senior Pastor. First Pres, you have lived through a huge amount of transition in the last 2½ years, with Rev. Hylton’s and Rev. Golbek’s leaving, with recent staff transitions, even with COVID pivots before that. Thanks to good leadership, caring small groups, active deacons and Stephen Ministers,
Ever wonder if some great and powerful Wizard of Oz works behind the scenes to decide what happens at this church? Nope! Not if you join the conversation. After all, we’re in Evanston, not Oz! We need your input into the next right steps for FPCE. What is God calling the church to be and
Thoughts from Rev. Dr. Tassie Green, Interim Senior Pastor. Wow! The church has been abuzz throughout this Lenten season! Six weeks of the series Wandering Heart: Figuring out Faith Along with Peter—a joy to join in together, with the help of A Sanctified Art’s compelling devotional and beautiful, insightful artwork. Five minutes of laying
Thoughts from Rev. Dr. Tassie Green, Interim Senior Pastor. “Come Thou Fount of Many Blessings” by Robert Robinson (1758) Come Thou fount of every blessing Tune my heart to sing Thy grace Streams of mercy never ceasing Call for songs of loudest praise Teach me some melodious sonnet Sung by flaming tongues above Praise the
Thoughts from Jim Teague FPCE director of communications. There is probably nothing in this life that keeps me more grounded in my relationship with Jesus than music. I simply cannot imagine spending the last 40+ years of walking in faith (sometimes more successfully than others) without having had songs and hymns to turn to in
Thoughts from Rev. Dr. Tassie Green, Interim Senior Pastor. Do any of you create actual scrapbooks or photo albums of your year? Or do you have all your precious memories stored in your phone? For Christmas, I created an album for my folks with 52 pages of our greater-family's, summer reunion at the lake. It
Thoughts from Jim Teague FPCE director of communications. If you play golf anywhere near as badly as I do, then you understand what it means to have a bag full of options and none of them good. I have, on rare occasion, hit my driver straight and true, but rare is the hole where I
