St. James Episcopal Church - Black Mountain, NC

"Find your part in God's love song and sing."
- The Rev. Phillip Glick
 
Acts 10:44-48
1 John 5:1-6
John 15:9-17
Psalm 98

"Abide means to make your home in God's love."
- The Rev. Kristi Neal
 
Acts 8:26-40
1 John 4:7-21
John 15:1-8
Psalm 22:24-30

"Can we be shepherded by love and kindness and wholeness and grace and patience and openness? To those like us and those not like us? "
- The Rev. Mary Catherine Cole
 
Acts 4:5-12
1 John 3:16-24
John 10:11-18
Psalm 23

"When Jesus said: Go and sin no more, he wasn’t saying: Go and stop being a bad person. He was saying: Go, mend what is broken."
- The Rev. Judith Whelchel
Acts 3:12-19
1 John 3:1-7
Luke 24:36b-48
Psalm 4
 

"We are called as a community of faith to make this church a place where God goes on challenging and refreshing our beliefs through what God gives us to behold."
- The Rev. Dr. Bruce Grob
 
Acts 4:32-35
1 John 1:1-2:2
John 20:19-31
Psalm 133

"We are not here because of one event then. We are here because that event is also now."
- The Rev. Judith Whelchel
 
Isaiah 25:6-9
Acts 10:34-43
John 20:1-18
 
 

"If you are brokenhearted, you turn to the left."
- The Rev. Dr. Bruce Grob
 
Isaiah 50:4-9a
Philippians 2:5-11
Mark 11:1-11

"The story, our story, God’s story, is still being written. By us and with us and for us."
- The Rev. Mary Catherine Cole
 
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Hebrews 5:5-10
John 12:20-33
Psalm 119:9-16

"As humankind, it is not the snake we’re afraid of, we’re avoiding—it’s transformation."
- The Rev. Judith Whelchel
Numbers 21:4-9
Ephesians 2:1-10
John 3:14-21
Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22

“God is with us. God is in us. Every hour of every day.“
- The Rev. Kristi Neal
 
Exodus 20:1-17
1 Corinthians 1:18-25
John 2:13-22
Psalm 19