Author Archives: Josh

Gone fishing

Good morning, Friends! I hope you’re all doing well today. I saw someone from our meeting who came here on Friday to buy a couple of pies from the Circle. The Circle made apple pies and chicken pies earlier this … Continue reading

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A day of discovery

Good morning, Friends! I hope you’re all doing really well this week! It’s a week after Easter, and we’re still in our own homes instead of here at the meetinghouse. We want to be together, but right now, meeting this … Continue reading

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In the garden (Easter Sunday)

Good morning, Friends! Happy Easter! Welcome to Springfield Friends Meeting! This isn’t Easter the way we normally celebrate it, with a crowded church and hundreds of voices singing together. We’re in a strange period, when we’re all staying at home … Continue reading

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Jesus’ prayers

Good morning, Friends! Welcome to our meeting for worship. We don’t have a choir, we don’t have a piano, we don’t have all the things we’re used to on Sunday. We do have people! Last Sunday I posted my sermon, … Continue reading

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The Last Supper – a different version

Good morning, Friends! This is the third Sunday we’ve had to cancel face-to-face worship at Springfield, and I really miss seeing you all. Everyone in our area has been advised to stay home for now. But we’re trying to stay … Continue reading

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Three people who loved Jesus

Good morning, Friends! Welcome to worship at Springfield Friends Meeting. Because of the virus, we aren’t holding worship here today at the meetinghouse. I’m still well, and I hope you are, too! I’ve been talking on the phone all week … Continue reading

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Lazarus

Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his … Continue reading

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Who’s blind?

As Jesus went along, he saw a man who was blind from birth. The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but … Continue reading

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The 7 “I AM” sayings in John

Good morning, Friends! For the last 8 weeks we’ve been working slowly through the gospel of John, reading the passages which are unique to John’s gospel (they’re not found anywhere else). This week we’re doing something very different. Scattered all … Continue reading

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Troubled waters

Good morning, Friends! We’re working our way through the gospel of John, from now through Easter. The point is for us to hear an entire gospel together, and listen to some of the greatest stories in the Bible. We’re reading … Continue reading

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