Pastor Grant M. VanderVelden shared this message at the funeral service for Thomas William “Tommy” Thomson, an elder and patriarch of First Presbyterian Church in Waukon, Iowa, on Saturday, February 3, 2024. Scholarship, commentary, and reflection by Jonathan Safran Foer and Scott Hoezee inform the message. Oskar Schell is the lead character in the novelContinue reading “Help When You Need It Most”
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Pastoral Meditation: Times and Seasons
Pastor Grant M. VanderVelden shared this message at the funeral for Jerry W. Ewing on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. The message arises from Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 – For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, andContinue reading “Pastoral Meditation: Times and Seasons”