by John Sawyer | Jun 26, 2025 | Weekly Word
As I write this, I am sitting beside the spillway at Montreat Conference Center in North Carolina, just below the waters of Lake Susan – a small manmade lake, fed by a creek that flows down from the surrounding mountains. As I write this, I can hear the gentle...
by John Sawyer | Jun 13, 2025 | Weekly Word
Summer Sermon Series A few months ago, I was talking with someone about their life and faith, and as part of the conversation, I began to wonder what makes this person tick, in the sense of their personal theology and system of beliefs. Was there some passage of...
by John Sawyer | Jun 6, 2025 | Weekly Word
Every summer for many years, people from Bedford Presbyterian Church have packed up their tools and laced up their work boots, hopping in cars and trucks and driving about three hours for a week at Mission at the Eastward in Farmington, Maine. This summer, we are...
by John Sawyer | May 30, 2025 | Weekly Word
I cannot remember a time in my life when church was not part of my life. Some of my earliest memories are of Vine Street Christian Church in Nashville, Tennessee – the church where my parents met while singing in the choir, the church where my grandparents...
by John Sawyer | May 20, 2025 | Weekly Word
Around four years ago, the Session of Bedford Presbyterian Church put together a job description for a new staff role: Director of Communications. At the time we were discussing this opportunity to expand our ministry of communications within the church and beyond the...
