First Presbyterian Church of Baton Rouge

Director of Children's Ministry Audra Cato reflects on the fear and tension of a pandemic and the call to find serenity through surrender.

2018 FPC stewardship chairman and local business owner, Parker Ewing shares insights into how to do business when the economy has come to a standstill, and what role faith has to play.

In part 2, counselor Sherry Kadair shows how to deal with the discomforting feelings arising from these strange times. Avoiding outright denial or total giving in to emotion, we Christians can take raw feelings before our Father and learn how he receives them.

FPC deacon and BRCCC therapist Sherry Kadair puts words to some of the strange feelings we’ve all been having. You’re not crazy! We’re having ordinary reactions to extraordinary circumstances.

The key to surviving the uncertainty of these days? The net that holds us when huge crevices in our future keep opening up? The way we face illness, death and life in a new era? We look to that man on the cross and know him to be the Son of God who is with us always. We cry out to his Spirit to come through our locked doors and besieged city with ample supplies of love and grace to get us through. We reach toward him as we reach toward each other. We offer the hand of grace to Christ with his cross in every way we care for each other.

That King of the Jews had something.
A light. A peace. A trust.
Even beaten to a pulp he radiated beauty,
He seemed more a man then than I’ll ever be.
Authority from above he claimed.
From above but flowing from within.
What is truth? I had mocked him.
But he was unfazed.
“My kingdom is not of this world.
I have come into the world to bear witness to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
His voice rang with truth.
How I wish I could hear it again?
Would I hear the truth if I heard him?
Did I do the right thing?

Time may be on our hands, but feeling peaceful is elusive. Jaime Carnaggio shares favorite passages for snatching moments of peace from lives of chaos.

Are you breathing the toxic breath of stress these days? Tension and fatigue are in the air. But what if we could draw breaths that bring peace. Katie Forsthoff introduces the ancient spiritual technique of breath prayer.

We’re confined. Time on our hands. Yet time is slipping away. So much is not getting done! Pastor Whitney Alexander chats with Gerrit about good things to do in these home-based days.

Oh Lord, the words said that I can never get back!