The Rev. George Adamik shares his experience breaking fast during Ramadan with local Muslim brothers and sisters and reflects on the timely lectionary reading from Genesis 21:8-21.
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Sermons (Page 47)
The Rev. Tony Wike considers Genesis 18:1-15, 21:1-7: “Laughter in response to God’s grace rings throughout this beautiful, ancient book of Genesis… and throughout Scripture in various ways.”
The Rev. Javier Almendárez Bautista reflects on Trinity Sunday: “The story is difficult to believe sometimes. I don’t mean because of how the math plays out, the three in one. It’s difficult to believe because we don’t often have the clearest sense of God’s presence in our day-to-day lives, God’s presence with and among us.”
The Rev. George Adamik discusses Pentecost (Acts 2:1-21): “Can we speak a language like these early followers of Christ that’s able to communicate the love of Jesus, the transforming vision of Jesus. Can we communicate that in a way that folks can understand, or are we speaking a foreign language?”
Katie and Maggie Loughlin reflect on their experiences growing up at St. Paul’s and participating in the Episcopal Youth Community (EYC).
You can learn a lot about people from their prayers. We each have our own way of communicating with God. Some are mumbled and stuttered and perhaps hesitant, while others are offered with confidence. (John 17:1-11)
The Rev. George Adamik reflects on Acts 17:22-31, Hidden Figures, and IBM: “So often, we can presume that things are seen by people in the same way, that the way I understand things is the way everyone understands them… I wonder if we, as people of faith, function in a world where we think everyone knows what we’re doing and everyone knows what Jesus is about. But we don’t live in that kind of a world.”
The Rev. Javier Almendárez Bautista considers John 14:1-14: “At this point, the disciples had been following Jesus for some time… and yet even then, the disciples still struggled to understand what it means to follow Jesus… Following Jesus rarely comes with a road map.”
The Rev. George Adamik discusses Acts 2:42-47 and what we can learn from the community of early followers in the Acts of the Apostles: “Interestingly, it’s not called the teachings of the apostles. It’s not called the beliefs or dogmas of the apostles. It’s called the Acts of the Apostles. We read it and see how they acted and how they engaged in the world as they discerned who they were called to be.”
Odd things in scripture capture my imagination, like there are several places in scripture where we meet pairs of people. Pairs invite us to think about relationships about what connects them, about what makes them communities of understanding either held or sought (Luke 24:13-35).