Communion Class: For First-Time and Returning Participants We’re excited to offer a Communion Class on Saturday, May 3, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., designed for first-time recipients as well as those who currently receive Communion but would welcome a refresher. Whether you're new to the sacrament or have been taking Communion for years, this class [...]

4th Sunday of Easter Join Us -- We Make a Place for Everyone! The Searching Sheep Messages and information today are texted, tweeted, broadcast, e-mailed, phoned, lectured, announced, packaged, and repackaged. The means and avenues for communication are many. Yet when it comes to the person known as Jesus of Nazareth we are often left [...]

5th Sunday of Easter Join Us -- We Make a Place for Everyone! God’s Beautifully Messy Community From abandonment to homecoming and from a narrow scope to a broader vision of God’s realm, these are the promises proclaimed. The early church and our faith communities are called to engage this reality. A community of Jewish [...]

6th Sunday of Easter Join Us -- We Make a Place for Everyone! Our Home-making God Into the midst of our anxiety and alarm we are offered a vision of a glorious future filled with promise—the promise that God will make a home with us. This is a promise of an ultimate future home—a New [...]

Pub Theology, June 1 On Sunday, June 1, 2025, members and friends of PHLC will gather at Full Pint  in Warrendale for another engaging session of Pub Theology. Held after the Sunday service, this event will offer a relaxed and welcoming space to enjoy food, drinks, and meaningful conversation about life, faith, and the big [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am -- We Make a Place for Everyone! What Does This Mean? “What does this mean?” the devout ask (Acts 2:12). For those gathered in that house, the event meant the birth of sudden, surprising, unmerited new life. Filled with the Holy Spirit, they burst from the house with a [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am -- We Make a Place for Everyone! Drawn into Relationship, Guided into Truth The doctrine of the Trinity invites us to consider how a God constituted by relationship—the Father with the Son, the Son with the Spirit, the Spirit with the Father—draws us into that relationship with God [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am -- We Make a Place for Everyone! Proclaiming How Much Jesus Has Done We feel powerless when life’s storms rage about us. Despite our best efforts, we cannot navigate those dangers without the hand of God to guide and free us. In the gospel, the man with demons [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am -- We Make a Place for Everyone! Asking Everything What does it mean to be a disciple? Today’s texts answer this question in various ways. Elisha was given the burdensome mantle of Elijah. Up until this point he’d simply been a student of the great prophet. Then, without [...]

New Visitors and Members Meet and Greet Are you new to our church community or simply curious about who we are and what we’re about? You’re warmly invited to our New Visitors and Members Meet and Greet on Sunday, June 29, from 11 am - 1 pm, following worship. We have several newer visitors and [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am — We Make a Place for Everyone! Sent with the Seventy Close your eyes and picture Jesus and his followers together. Most likely people either picture Jesus sitting around with the twelve disciples or standing in the midst of thousands preaching and teaching. Yet in today’s gospel Jesus [...]

Join us on Sundays at 9:30 am — We Make a Place for Everyone! Who Are You? Who do you identify with in the parable? This is part of what makes parables so powerful. Some days we read the story through the eyes of the priest or the Levite. Some days we feel like the [...]