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Fr. Dixon Kinser Jan 09, 2012
In the Jewish Bible, the Hebrew people are encouraged to teach their children the ways of God by, “talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.” (Deut 11:19). I love this description of spiritual formation because it ...
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Fr. Jerry Smith Nov 26, 2011
One of the themes that keeps being repeated in our community is that we need to belearning to listen to God and one another. It does make sense that if His goal is to make us into the people He wants us to be, then we need to be learning to listen.
Maybe more bluntly, we are being called to ...
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Fr. Jerry Smith Sep 26, 2011
KINGDOM TALK by Fr. Jerry Smith, Rector
My wife Marjie, and I spend a lot of time in the car. Commutes to work are short, but our trips to visit our children and grandchildren take over 10 hours and we often try to accomplish these trips in one “sitting.”
We have taken ...
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Fr. Jerry Smith Jun 27, 2011
Pentecost
It’s about becoming the Church!Being transformed from a ragtag community of strugglers to a parade of empowered, enabled doers and “be”rs.When the apostles had their Pentecostal experience they realized for the first time that they had been actually adopted into the ...
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Fr. Dixon Kinser Jun 03, 2011
Alleluia, He is Risen!I’ll bet you didn’t see that coming!There is an old saying, “Familiarity breeds contempt.” However, in the life of the church familiarity does not so often breed contempt so much as unfamiliarity. What I mean is this: we can become so accustomed to our ...
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