https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog daily 0.75 2026-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/1670524411194-UY96M3FH009E1IGLFD0R/image-asset.jpeg The Pastor's Blog https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/lament-for-lent-grieving-the-surge-in-gambling monthly 0.5 2026-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/5cf7c7c6-ca7c-492f-b980-a816facc87cb/2026-03-01+IMAGE.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Lament for Lent: Grieving the Surge in Gambling - Make it stand out The Rich Man, from "The Dance of Death,” Hans Holbein the Younger (German), Printmaker Hans Lützelburger (German), ca. 1526, published 1538, in the Met Collection, public domain, click on the image to link. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/lament-for-lent-grieving-the-decline-of-public-morality monthly 0.5 2026-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/d36cb794-8702-4ab9-853d-2ed2de2409c8/2026-02-22+IMAGE.jpg The Pastor's Blog - Lament for Lent: Grieving the Decline of Public Morality - Make it stand out Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, click to link to source https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/wish-lists monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/1ce0552b-d361-49a0-bcf6-e17635e5809d/2025-12-07+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Wish Lists - Make it stand out AI-generated image. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/looking-forward monthly 0.5 2025-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/171fc0ea-4415-47a7-b28d-ef82c16abc05/2025-11-16+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Looking Forward - Make it stand out Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by Francesco Hayez. Oil on canvas, 1867. Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, Italy. 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Soord, Public Domain. University of Southern California Libraries and California Historical Society. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library. Click on image to link to source. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/the-cost-of-discipleship monthly 0.5 2025-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/b1f07714-5bef-4bc0-9d9f-4dbe6482784e/2025-09-07+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - The Cost of Discipleship - Make it stand out Christ Carrying the Cross, carved, painted and varnished wood with glitter mounted on painted corrugated cardboard with paper collage, painted stones and glitter, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson,https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/christ-carrying-cross-19736 click on image to link to the source. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/detour monthly 0.5 2025-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/13b728b6-92a9-45ac-8401-c7a2b48b140f/2025-05-25+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Detour - Make it stand out The Macedonian Call, tile mosaic, The Altar of St. Paul, Berea, Greece, courtesy of Edgar Serrano, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ click on img to link to the source. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/when-it-is-difficult-to-love monthly 0.5 2025-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/c15cb418-f3f1-4d25-bc16-c61925586500/2025-05-18+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - When It Is Difficult to Love - Make it stand out inkprint from engraving, in a history of the Old and New Testaments by David Martin, 17th century, courtesy of the Digital Archives, Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, Atlanta, click on image to link to source. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/running-to-trouble monthly 0.5 2025-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/133be012-c1ac-4c94-899d-385d9fe64cbb/2025-05-11+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Running to Trouble - Make it stand out Dorcas Raised from the Dead by St. Peter, copy after Jacob Jordaens, c. 1670, red and black chalk, Robert Lehman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Public Domain, click image to link to the source. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/the-right-questions monthly 0.5 2025-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/b35b878d-2ea0-48b9-9ddf-b50c1e03e418/2025-05-04+GRAPHIC.jpg The Pastor's Blog - The Right Questions - Make it stand out Christ’s Charge to Peter, Raphael, c. 1516, a full-size cartoon design for a tapestry, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Public Domain, click image to link to source. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/jesus-here-and-now monthly 0.5 2025-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/302d5b0b-7694-417c-aa7d-a01fc44ad2f6/2025-04-20+GRAPHIC.png The Pastor's Blog - Jesus Here and Now - Make it stand out Anastasis, Russian icon, 1650-1700, gold leaf and tempera on wood panel, St. Louis Art Museum, public domain. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/betrayal monthly 0.5 2025-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/6a86deaa-8105-493d-a86f-5fc13d1f4b95/2025-04-17+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Betrayal - Make it stand out Gerard Seghers, The Denial of St. Peter, circa 1620-1625. Oil on canvas, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Click on the image to link to the source. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/abraham-joshua-heschel monthly 0.5 2025-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/c2b04429-ae2c-41c2-beb2-287d8eb6ccbc/Heschel.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Abraham Joshua Heschel - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/anointing monthly 0.5 2025-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/cd94dc1c-9b56-43c8-a43f-9bc237f173f5/2025-04-06+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Anointing - Make it stand out The Anointing at Bethany, (1618) Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck, Oil on canvas, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/dorothy-day monthly 0.5 2025-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/5e88401d-ac51-4642-9bc3-15affa5e6106/Dorothy+Day.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Dorothy Day - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/howard-thurman monthly 0.5 2025-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/fefdb510-576a-49b3-bc0e-b97a899caedd/HW+Thurman+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Howard Thurman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/tragedy monthly 0.5 2025-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/157a5440-43d3-489b-9209-9a52c1e7cce8/2025-03-23+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Tragedy - Make it stand out Mazzolino, Ludovico, 1480?-1530. Parable of the Barren Fig Tree, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56110 [retrieved March 21, 2025]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ludovico_Mazzolino_-_Mozes_en_de_tafelen_der_Wet.jpg. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/reinhold-niebuhr monthly 0.5 2025-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/0ff5fdfc-5843-4742-add5-d7dd528488e1/Reinhold+Niebuhr+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Reinhold Niebuhr - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/gain-and-loss monthly 0.5 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/4a74a42b-2b81-4df6-8aac-4a37e1f311e9/2025-03-16+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Gain and Loss - Make it stand out page detail from Philippians, 1611 KJV Bible (Replica Edition) photo by jch https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/lenten-study-1-amp-2-dietrich-bonhoeffer monthly 0.5 2025-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/9ab29d5a-6cd3-4fc1-b497-9eed8b5e26fa/Bonhoeffer.png The Pastor's Blog - Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/9jrxt57yh01sxybrdjkfr3ljkm5l89 monthly 0.5 2025-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/b2cbdc9b-8c12-4032-9b11-84a99b0aa34b/2025-03-02+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Transfiguration - Make it stand out Illustration in L'histoire dv Vieux et dv Nouveau Testament by Nicolas Fontaine, circa 1670, courtesy of the Digital Archives, Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, Atlanta. 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Sermon on the Mount, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN; click on image to link. An engaging reflection on this artwork may be found here: https://laurieetta.com/sermon-on-the-level-place/ https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/wow monthly 0.5 2025-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/34bb6b0a-86a0-4e9e-a3a6-0fe0506d3a29/2025-02-09+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Wow! - Make it stand out James Tissot (Nantes, France, 1836–1902, Chenecey–Buillon, France). The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (La pêche miraculeuse), 1886–1896. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 6 3/4 x 9 11/16 in. (17.1 x 24.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased by public subscription; click on image to link to source. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/sermon-4th-sunday-after-epiphany monthly 0.5 2025-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/5080a5e8-e6b0-4ada-971a-e4177566c621/2024-02-02+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Perilous Preaching - Make it stand out Jesus’s Sermon in Nazareth, Lithograph, circa 1900, click on image to link to source. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/enough monthly 0.5 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/458dc05c-a633-4250-9610-5d360d119257/IMG_3666.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Enough - Make it stand out 1960 Cornerstone, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, photo by jch. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/life-after-death monthly 0.5 2024-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/db884efe-064e-479e-9a3c-cbed63b52d07/2024-11-03+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Life After Death - Make it stand out Memorial Garden Crosses, First Presbyterian Church Edwardsville, photo by jch. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/all-creatures-great-and-small monthly 0.5 2024-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/5961dba8-4161-441c-a15c-09af2c797ddc/04a+.jpg The Pastor's Blog - All Creatures Great and Small - Make it stand out Pastor’s Note, The Door Newsletter, November 2024 https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/truth-matters monthly 0.5 2024-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/5de4118e-33f6-4903-93ef-08687b8af5d6/2024-10-20+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Truth Matters - Make it stand out "Death of Ananias," Matthias Scheits, inked woodcut pressed to paper circa 1672, from annotated Bible, trans. Martin Luther, public domain. Digital image provided courtesy of Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta. Click on image to link to source. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/the-people-in-the-statistics monthly 0.5 2024-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/4c31b5ff-714c-4050-9057-ef9161c2d2dd/05a+Statistics+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - The People in the Statistics - Make it stand out page detail from On Hallowed Ground: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 2018, photo by jch. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/global-impact-sjcrh monthly 0.5 2024-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/1a81483c-2326-44cc-8dde-9e9618dbcb72/04a+Impact+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Global Impact: SJCRH - Make it stand out Hope, Gauri Patel, Patient Art Gallery, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, photo by jch. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/blessed-are-the-peacemakers monthly 0.5 2024-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/2fdec384-3567-402b-a78b-693f1b419ffd/2024-10-06+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Blessed are the Peacemakers - Make it stand out "Sermon on the Mount," inked woodcut pressed to paper circa 1558, from a book by Martin Luther, public domain. Digital image provided courtesy of Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta. https://www.fpcedw.org/pastors-blog/danny-thomas-and-his-vow monthly 0.5 2024-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635807209c462a5a34de23b2/55b25385-7403-4cd7-8e5f-03115b9ab8fd/03a+DT+Statue+GRAPHIC.jpeg The Pastor's Blog - Danny Thomas and his vow - Make it stand out Danny Thomas Founder Statue, near main entrance, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis. 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