In worship today, we opened with the reminder that Jesus is the one that brings true life to the world. Our job and our mission is to live in the world as Christ did and to make the saving grace of God in Christ known. Our psalmist sang a song that tells the world that […]
In worship, today was a day where we are reminded that love is the centerpiece of all that we are as a community of faith. That without love, nothing we do is a real worth. Our ability to reflect God’s love is what makes us different and inviting. Our Hebrew Scripture was taken from the […]
Grace and peace from the Rector’s Study on the second Sunday of Advent. It has been a good first week of Advent, we began a study of the “Virtual Preaching Monks” on Wednesday and had some good and probing conversation. We will continue this coming Wednesday with the study. You should stop by and see […]
In worship, we celebrated the Last Sunday after Pentecost – sometimes called, Christ the King Sunday. We were reminded that all things are restored to their native being through the work and presence of Jesus, the King of kings. We were also reminded that humanity is divided but can be made whole through the work […]
Today is the celebration of Trinity Sunday – one of the most complicated days in the church year. We celebrate the simplicity of the unity of God – creator, redeemer, and sustainer – alongside the diversity of all believers and ways we experience God’s enduring presence. Our reading from the Prophet Isaiah was Isaiah’s call […]
We were invited on the 5th Sunday of Easter to remember that a big part of our mission as believers is to follow the way of Jesus and to share his message of hope and salvation. The life of Christ reminds us of the need to act, often without a full understanding of what we […]
Our readings today included the giving of the 10 Commandments (10 Words) in Exodus at the Mountain. We are reminded that there are two aspects of our relationship with God: fidelity to God and our relationship with God and second, our proper functioning as a community. Not just specifically a community of believers but as […]
In our worship we were reminded by the collect composer that we have liberty that our abundant life in Christ provides us. But not just abundance for us without consideration, but abundance that is meant to be shared. In our reading from Isaiah the refrain, “have you not known? Have you not heard?” served as […]
Grace and peace to you on the first Sunday after the Epiphany and as 2021 becomes a reality. We’ve been toying around with winter this week, at least Southside Virginia winter. It was a bit nippy at church this morning but, thankfully, the wind had subsided a little. We’re still working with limitations on attendance […]
Worship today helped us recall, by way of our collect, that God is abundant in mercy and forgiving of our fear which, through our faith in the saving grace afforded by Christ, we receive grace and salvation. Our fulfilled life comes from our covenanted relationship with God – a covenant which is not requirement/punishment, but […]