A few years back I was working for a church as their youth director. Because the church was much smaller than St. Paul’s, my job was mainly to supervise the students on Sunday night and to provide pastoral care when it was needed…
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Worship. Serve. Grow.
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We’ve heard the story of the women going to the tomb of Jesus. They were going there to perform a Jewish ritual. But when they went to the tomb, what they experienced was quite different from what they expected…
When I was about 17 years old, there was a huge blow up in my family. As a result, certain extended family members and my immediate family became disconnected. We never heard from them or called them again. That is, until about two years ago…
Tonight our Lenten journey is nearly over. The last leg of the journey began last Sunday as we reenacted Jesus’ triumphant procession into Jerusalem accompanied by cheering crowds. Today it ends with a different kind of procession…
If you took a quick peek at Craig’s and my kitchen table right now, you would see about six Post-It or sticky notes affixed to it. Actually it’s a very common occurrence in our house…
On Palm Sunday the liturgy itself has such a power to it that as a homilist who’s sharing a homily this morning I feel a need to almost get out of the way of the liturgy and let it tell it’s story…
Today is a very special day in the life of our parish. Today at our 11:15 service we will welcome four children into our family through the waters of Holy Baptism. And at our 9:00 service we will join in congratulating 27 children who will graduate from their communion class…
A couple of weeks ago I spent some time with our Communion class. There are 27 children this year. In my class we focused on what we do when we get together for the Eucharist…
Today I would like to reflect with you upon relationship. You might expect that I would reflect upon our relationship with God…
At the beginning of our Gospel text today, Jesus asks his disciples a question, “Who do you say that I am?” …