North Madison
Congregational
Church

When guests arrive at your home for dinner, do you greet them with a basin and towel and proceed to wash their feet Probably NOT!...

If you were to ask choir members which anthems they MOST enjoy singing, chances are that SOON AND VERY SOON would be among them! Composer...

♥️ “COME JOIN US……THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR YOU!!!” ♥️ Are there any more heartwarming words to hear? Contrast that with — ...

Can you picture yourself back in Bible times, sitting on a hillside listening attentively to Jesus — and after he tells you in the...

KUMMERSPECK GIGIL UBUNTU Sometimes you need a word to describe something — and there isn’t one! WONDERFUL words...

Do you ever have moments when you feel that God is REALLY trying to get your attention? Whenever I see LIGHT reflecting on WATER, I am...

In August 1932, composer Thomas Dorsey (not the band leader) was attending a music convention in Chicago when word reached him that his...

To me, one of life’s little pleasures is a brand-new notebook! All those beautiful blank pages just waiting to be filled up … with — Art...

How do YOU welcome in the new year? In the Netherlands, everyone sets off fireworks... In Brazil everyone wears white and jumps over 7...

**** COMFORT **** We all have need of it! … that “warm feeling of contentment as we snuggle down and forget the cares that stress us…...

In Utquiagvik, Alaska the sun set for the last time on November 15 and will not rise again until late January 2023 — 65 days of Polar...

Walking in the woods, one often spots stumps or fallen trees. One of the most special SURPRISES is when you also spot a tender shoot...

Thanksgiving was only yesterday … and though the turkey has barely cooled off, the hyperactivity of Christmas preparation has ready...

A story tells of a tiny bird lying on its back, feet in the air … “WHAT ON EARTH are you DOING?” asked another bird. “Getting ready in...

🎶 🎶 I’ve got RHYTHM, I’ve got music …. who could ask for anything MORE ?! 🎶 🎶 Thus begins the old Gershwin song … When you DON’T...

A young boy went to church one Sunday with his grandfather. Noticing the beautiful light pouring through stained glass windows, he asked...

“There is a center of quietness within which has to be known and held… If you lose that center, you are in tension and begin to fall...

“May I have the pleasure of this dance?” In 7th grade ballroom dancing school when asked that question, I accepted nervously — fervently...

I love the Celtic concept of “thin places” — places in which the veil between heaven and earth is tissue-paper thin .... places where God...

I guess Miss DiCorletto (my fifth grade teacher) had never seen the words printed above …. because one day at school —after I had...