Dear people of Grace, Last week we transitioned into a new liturgical season: Advent. Adventcomes from the Latin, adventus, or coming. It is a season…
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Dear people of Grace, Let’s talk about peace. The Peace. The “kiss of peace” is an ancient tradition of the Christian Church. St. Paul signs…
Dear people of Grace, This week we celebrate one of the seven Principal Feasts of the Church. All Saints’ Day is unique among these in…
Dear People of Grace, In my sermon last Sunday I indicated that good stewardship is a way of life, a way that places God at…
Dear people of Grace, There are a series of questions which I am sometimes asked which relate to our participation in church. Why do we…
Dear people of Grace, As we continue to look at church from the perspective of those outside its walls, I wrote last week about the…
Dear People of Grace, With Jesus standing before him, awaiting judgment, Pontius Pilate gets to say one of my favorite lines in scripture: “What is…
A few weeks ago I was reading to my daughters at bedtime and we picked out the book “Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam” which,…
Dear people of Grace, Former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple (1881-1944) once said “The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of…
Dear people of Grace, I hope, over the past few weeks that I have convinced you that prayer is a relational activity. This may have…