May you be blessed at the beginning of your Lenten journey as we celebrate Ash Wednesday with the imposition of ashes, the litany of penitence, and the Eucharist. This Lenten season feels a little anticlimactic – we began our Coronatide journey during Lent last year and continue now, almost a full year later. Yet, we […]
Blessing to you on the Feast of the Pentecost. It’s been 50 days since Easter (not counting Sundays) and we celebrated the coming of the Holy Spirit all those years ago. We celebrated inside for the first time in my tenure at St. John’s (at least in my recollection). Every year from 2011 through this […]
Good afternoon friends and welcome to 2018 in the midst of the first snow of the year. I hope you have been safe and warm as the Arctic weather has blown through Southside Virginia. The conditions were dicey enough that we felt it more prudent to cancel worship and be safe. The roads were okay […]
Oct 23 – 23 Pentecost Joel 2:23-32 God’s Response and Promise God’s Spirit Poured Out Background: The Book of Joel is the second book in the Masoretic book of the Twelve Prophets. Joel (meaning the Lord [יהוה] is God in Hebrew) is a prophet, most likely in post-exilic Israel. The book spans not only the […]