Seeing Past the Surface

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7h56s-13c16d7

Lent Week 4

1 Samuel 16:1-13; Psalm 23; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41

Are you a good judge of character? Sometimes even when we are, we struggle to see all the way past the surface. Only God sees ultimate reality, but as we turn to Him we can learn to see the bigger picture of His intentions for our people, each other, and even ourselves. It’s all still grace.

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Scripture: Kathleen Youngs

Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan

Main Message: Pastor Jenn (Rev Jennifer A G Layte)

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Is the Lord Among Us or Not?

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pyit7-13b4d53

Lent Week 3  Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 95; Romans 5:1-11; John 4:5-42

Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts. (Even if the sermon needs to be a little longer!)

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Scripture: Paul Layte

Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan

Main Message: Rev Jennifer A G Layte (Pastor Jenn)

You Have One Job

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3y3kt-13b2e99

Lent Week 2 

Genesis 12:1-4; Psalm 121; Romans 4:1-5, 13-17; John 3:1-17

What if there are two slippery slopes, and all you need to avoid either one is trust?

(Somehow Scripture reading did not get recorded on this one.)

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Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan

Main Message: Rev Jennifer A G Layte (Pastor Jenn)

Until the Day Dawns

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-iukmb-139f8ff

Exodus 24:12-18; Psalm 2; 2 Peter 1:16-21; Matthew 17:1-9

Epiphany Week 7 – Transfiguration Sunday

Pastor Jenn tries to make sense of the Transfiguration.

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Scripture Reading: Tom Jernigan

Special Music (“In the Room” by Reddick): Tim Gunderman

Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan

Main Message: Rev Jennifer A G Layte (Pastor Jenn)

Are We Having Fun Yet?

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mssjj-138fc31

Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Psalm 119:1-8; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; Matthew 5:21-37

Epiphany Week 6

What if following the “laws and ways” of God could actually be enjoyable?

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Scripture Reading: Paul Layte

Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan

Main Message: Rev Jennifer A G Layte (Pastor Jenn)

Think Like I’m Thinking

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-an8yk-138fa5f

Isaiah 58:1-9a; Psalm 112:1-10; 1 Corinthians 2:1-16; Matthew 5:13-20

Epiphany Week 6

Possibly Pastor Jenn tried to pack too many of the relevant Scriptures into one sermon, but then again, it’s important to learn how to think about the written word of God in the way the Living Word of God (Jesus) does, right?

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Scripture Reading: Tom Jernigan

Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan

Main Message: Rev Jennifer A G Layte (Pastor Jenn)

Jesus People

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-x2uhh-137dd6e

Micah 6:1-8, Psalm 15, 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, Matthew 5:1-12

Epiphany Week 4

Last week we asked, “Did the Apostle Paul just say ‘be perfectly united in EVERYTHING’? When has that ever happened?” This week we talked about some more reasons WHY that rarely happens, and some practical approaches to getting there more often. There was a disturbance in the service which indicated to many of us that perhaps this message was extra important for us to hear. The disturbance has not been edited out of this video, but the details and context remain private to our congregation.

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Scripture Reading: Tom Jernigan

Unfortunately, Rev Barb’s mic was not working and there is no audio for the Message in a Basket this week.

Main Message: Rev Jennifer A G Layte (Pastor Jenn)

What’s Your Brand?

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hfvd8-1375e87

Isaiah 9:1-4; Psalm 27:1, 4-9; 1 Corinthians 1:10-18; Matthew 4:12-23

Epiphany Week 3

Did the Apostle Paul just say “be perfectly united in EVERYTHING?” When has that ever happened? Also, the difference between cookies and puzzles.

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Scripture Reading: Mark Bertrand

Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan

Main Message: Rev Jennifer A G Layte (Pastor Jenn)

Who Is the Chosen?

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7kdrt-136c9f8

Isaiah 49:1-7; Psalm 40:1-11; 1 Corinthians 1:1-9; John 1:29-42

 

Epiphany Week 3

Who is, or are, the Chosen? And what is he/are they chosen for?

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Scripture: Kathleen Youngs

Message in a Basket: Rev Barbara Jernigan

Main Message: Pastor Jenn (Rev Jennifer A G Layte)

Jenn Stories Are Back…Kind Of

I started this blog in 2011, just before I met My Paul. It began as a writer’s blog and as a place to describe my mishaps and shenanigans, as had been the blog before that. Marriage and aging and possible actual maturing happened and this blog no longer really fit with my life and what I was doing anymore.

I haven’t posted here in years, and while I have retained some of the blogging friends I had when I started this project (in fact, some of us interact pretty regularly in real time–if not real space–now, which is delightful!), I would guess that most of you and I are just obliviously passing each other by in the aether at this point.

Now I’m a founder of a small nonprofit and a pastor of a small church, and while I write spiritual formation courses and programs for the one and weekly sermons for the other, it’s not exactly the kind of writing I was thinking I was going to do when I began blogging at the Jenn stories. Until 2022, when I took an excellent writing workshop. Now I have a whole new book (not a novel this time, but still story-based) queued up and ready for representation.

But I need a more substantial platform than I currently have. Also, I miss the interactions we used to have around these parts. It might be just shy of a miracle if everyone who is still listed as following this defunct blog actually saw and read this post, but you definitely won’t if I don’t write it. So, this is me, inviting you to come back.

I’m older and by now I sure hope at least a little wiser, but you might be pleasantly surprised to find the same level of quirk, and maybe even better writing. I promise to tell you some of my own stories, as well as stories about what’s happening in the corners of the world where I do my work now, and what’s happening in my writing. Oh also? Now that I live in a bigger house (no longer on a pond, though, alas), I have room to dabble in art projects. If you subscribe to my emails, you’ll get access to a free postcard download of one of my watercolor paintings…with a story-based spiritual practice prompt you can try. Hope to see you again soon!