During our Sunday Eucharist liturgy walk through this past Sunday at 9:30am, someone asked an important question: “How should we ‘examine ourselves’ when we come to the Lord’s Table?” The question arises from a direct quote of St. Paul from his correspondence to the Corinthians.…
An Epiphany Reflection from Gregory of Nazianzus
Today is the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord Jesus Christ, which has been celebrated in the church since at least the fourth century. The First Sunday after the Epiphany (this upcoming Sunday, January 12), we celebrate the baptism of Christ, when he was…
Epiphany Tradition: Chalking of the Door
Here’s a fun Epiphany tradition you could try this year with your family: chalking the door! The chalking of the door is typically done on or around January 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany. Epiphany (which means “revealing”) commemorates the Magi who came from the…
A Christmas Message from Father Ben
Dear Church, Tonight we begin the 12-day celebration of the Incarnation: Christmastide! I hope you’ll be able to join us this afternoon at 4pm for a joint Christmas Eve service with Spirit of Joy. It’s easy to blithely affirm the fact that “God became flesh,”…
How We Gather During the Week: Table Groups
You hear us speak almost every week about our Table Groups. I thought I’d take just a few minutes to describe what we are talking about when we say “Table Group”. 🙂 Table Groups meet in homes, over a meal, with space to encounter each…
How to Prepare For Worship
Because we share a worship space with another church (thank you Spirit of Joy!), we don’t have a lot of time to get everything ready for our worship gathering. If you ever come early for worship, you’ll see our team plugging in instruments, rehearsing songs,…
A New Church Year Starts Sunday!
Dear Church, With Thanksgiving this week, it often flies under the radar that this Sunday is the First Sunday of Advent, the beginning of a new church year! Advent is a season of longing, expectation, and hope. We turn our hearts toward the second coming of Christ,…
How God Shares His Power Among Us
This past Sunday we commissioned our first vestry, and four of those people helped me preach on how God shares his power among us (and how there’s always leftovers when we give what we have!). If you weren’t there, I encourage you to listen to…
Daily Prayer as Embodied Participation in God’s Life
We just concluded our series on Living a Sacramental Life (to Combat the Secular Heresy) by talking about the way that we learn to live in moment-by-moment communion with God: through embodied participation. What this means is that we don’t really grow as disciples of…
The Kingdom Comes In Us AND Through Us
What God does through us, he also does in us. Scripture describes this dynamic in organic metaphors: Good soil produces good fruit (Luke 8:11ff) Good tree produces good fruit (Matthew 7.15ff) Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks (Matthew 12.33ff) Branch cannot…
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