On Wednesday morning, it was announced that Terry Jones has died. In a statement from his family, they said: “Terry passed away on the evening of 21 January 2020 at the age of 77 with his wife Anna Soderstrom by his side after a long, extremely brave but always good humoured battle with a rare form of dementia, FTD.”
I wonder how many of you already are evangelists?
With his frizzy hair pulled into forward-protruding spikes and his goggle-size glasses, Max Pauson resembles one of the futuristic comic-book characters he admires and draws. Ebullient and eager to show a sketchbook filled with startling portraits, he seems to have identity to spare…
What is today? Yes, the calendar says January 5, 2020. That is the secular way of marking time, but I want to remind you of our actual calendar…
Prayer of Illumination O Lord, even as you entered this world with your Son for our salvation, now enter our hearts and minds with your Spirit that we may hear and understand your word of joy. In the name of Jesus Christ our Redeemer, Amen. Isaiah 9:2-7 2 [a]The people who walked in darkness have […]
Proper 29C / Ordinary 34C / Pentecost +24 11May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully 12giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13He […]
Proper 28C / Ordinary 33C / Pentecost +23 6Now we command you, beloved, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from believers who are living in idleness and not according to the tradition that they received from us. 7For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not […]
22nd Sunday after Pentecost/Proper 27 2As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we beg you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as though from us, to the effect that the […]
My Dad’s a numbers guy, and you know what happens to numbers people at church. They get put on the stewardship committee. Every year, Dad was asking people how they could commit to God more deeply. I’ve forgotten most of the speeches, but one of them stayed with me. I call it the pie pan […]
11Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. 12We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who […]