Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come.mark 13:33 Last year at this time, I was serving as Interim Rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Painesville, Ohio. It gave me an opportunity to revive a practice that I had enjoyed when I was in active full-time parish ministry –ContinueContinue reading “ADVENT DRAWS NEAR”
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A HOPE FOR PEACE
Gratitude is the emotional response to the surprise of our very existence.Diana Butler Bass (Grateful, p. 43) I am writing on Thanksgiving Eve of 2023 – Wednesday, November 22. It didn’t occur to me until last night, as my wife and I were driving home from an interfaith Thanksgiving service, that it was sixty yearsContinueContinue reading “A HOPE FOR PEACE”
THE YEAR OF PURPOSE II
In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will, so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you had heard theContinueContinue reading “THE YEAR OF PURPOSE II”
Walking Together in Faith 