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?” …
I’ve been asked this morning to give my story of Stewardship, in the hopes that, perhaps, my story will resonate with some of you and invoke the Spirit of giving within you during your discernment. But I know some of you are very scientific and calculating in your thought process, so let me just begin by offering two statistics: About 50% and about 95%.
Now that we’ve got that data out of the way, let’s get back to the story….
There is a New Yorker Magazine cartoon that had two people talking to each other, and one person is saying to the other, “Well, enough about me. Let’s talk about you. So what do you think about me?” I feel a little bit like that today in that I would like to talk a little bit about me. Not that I’m preaching me, but to talk a little about what I’ve been experiencing this past week and talk to you about that this morning…
Mark 1:29-39
“After they left the synagogue.” That’s how our Gospel reading begins today. Jesus and his disciples had left the synagogue, and then unfolds this story that we just read from the Gospel reading this morning. When you think about it, a lot of what we read about in the Gospels about Jesus is about his ministry outside the synagogue…
Two weeks ago all of the clergy from our diocese including the clergy here and all of our lay deputies from the diocese including the lay people who are deputies for our church here attended the Diocese of North Carolina’s Annual Convention in Winston-Salem…
My fishing history is very short and not so sweet. My first encounter came when our youngest son Steven was almost six years old. Craig had introduced our two sons to fishing and it was love at first sight for both of them. And when Craig and Rob were going to a Cub Scout function, younger brother Steve was a bit put out. So Craig suggested I take him fishing at the Deerfield Beach pier…
I wonder if many of you have seen the holiday animated film called Gotta Catch Santa Claus? It’s several years old and has a real catchy theme song: “he’s on his way in a super cool sleigh” and “gotta find proof that he’s on the roof”. For those who don’t know the adolescent girl lead doesn’t believe in Santa and the boy lead wants to catch Santa to prove it to her…