Author page: First Baptist Church

About the Guest Preacher Rev. Amanda Guthrie recently moved to Lafayette from Portland, Oregon, and she serves as a chaplain at St. Elizabeth Hospital. A native of Pennsylvania, Amanda is an ordained minister in the UCC tradition. Amanda is married to Andrew (who happens to serve as the pastor at First Christian Church). About this Series Hebrews is a mysterious…

  About this Series Hebrews is a mysterious member of the New Testament, one that we often do not spend much time in trying to understand.  Although scholars cannot tell us who exactly wrote it, nor to whom exactly it was addressed, scholars can tell us its purpose in being written was pastoral in nature:  attempting to reassure members of…