The vibrancy of life here at St. Peter’s makes my service on our staff a joy and privilege. Visitation, teaching and preaching are the ministries that feed my pastoral identity, as together our staff and lay members share in our missional calling … Building a community of faith by God’s grace.
The Advent-Christmas season is characterized by stories, and so this morning I offer you a story written by Mary Quattelbaum entitled The Shine Man, and illustrated by Tim Ladwig … and some sermonic commentary. Hear that rickety-rack of wheels over track? Hear the cry of the train? Oh, it takes me back to a tale…
Preachers love this time of the year. Because we get to take pot shots at people, for all the crummy priorities folks have during the Christmas season. We complain because you spend too much money on Christmas presents … while we ourselves are walking the mall and enjoying shopping for our loved ones. We whine…
Our thanks again to Brendan Armitage for this week’s devotion! Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” —Mark 14:36 Our genteel display of winter squash, in reds and tans and oranges, had been rather cruelly mauled, as you can see…
We thank Brendan Armitage for writing this week’s email devotional! “I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean.” ~~ Romans 14:14 (NRSV) “Oh, Martha! That cake is sinfully delicious!” Insert your favorite decadent…
John Gillespie Magee was a WWII fighter pilot, who wrote these words three months before he was killed in a mid-air collision. The poem is entitled, “High Flight.” Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds,…
We could not have a worse Gospel Lesson for this morning’s service than the one I just read from Luke, chapter 20. On Annual Meeting Sunday, I was hoping that maybe the First Lesson would be from the First Book of Kings … recounting King Solomon’s temple building project in Jerusalem, and how he paid…
