One of the things I love best about Restoration is the number of folks with gifts of leadership who serve our community. They are humble, dedicated, passionate– it’s a joy to work alongside them. Yesterday we concluded our vestry election for 2011. Our new elders are: Santiago Sedaca and George Patterson. Cindy Darnell was also […]
“For He is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, the sheep of his hand.” Sheep? Sometimes I struggle with the multi-thousand year culture gap between the authors/teachers/prophets of Scripture and us. Sheep. Because I don’t feel like I can relate I often gloss over some of these metaphors in hopes that […]
Generosity, Getting Involved, Kids, Outreach 0
Can a gift change a life? I recently watched several of the videos on the Operation Christmas Child website showing joyful children all over the world receiving Christmas gifts in shoeboxes. They are amazing!! In one of these videos titled “Blessing Children and Churches in Sudan” something said by James Abdella in Lainya, Southern Sudan caught […]
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days… …yes, establish the work of our hands!
Life Together, Sunday Corporate Worship 0
Some stuff I’ve been thinking about: Really sad, horrified, mourning the stuff at Penn State. What a loss to Joe Paterno and his long career. What a horrible consequence to these boys. If you are a parent of kids from 7 on up, take a moment to talk through it with your children. Make sure […]
Erin’s post, “The Beauty of the Word,” about her experience with the St. John’s Bible really had an impact on me. (If you haven’t checked out the website yet, you should.) She said in the closing of her post, “I’m profoundly grateful that God has given people the gifts and the vision to be able to share […]
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend “pastors’ school” at Duke Divinity School. The theme of the gathering was the arts in the life of the church. It was a great conference, with wonderful lectures by Jeremie Begbie, a reading by Marilynne Robinson (author of one of my all-time favorite books, Gilead), […]
Anglican, Baptism, Sunday Corporate Worship 0
There’s a big holiday next week — and it doesn’t involve costumes or candy. Throughout the history of the church, November 1st has been celebrated as All Saints’ Day. It’s one of the major feast, or celebration, days of the church year. This year, All Saints’ falls on a Tuesday, but we’ll be celebrating it […]
I have struggled with the image of Jesus as “friend.” The heady conversations I have had with people concerning this term deemed it below that which a most Holy God would expect from his worshippers. Yet I consider a hymn like “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” to be incredibly reverent. “What language shall I borrow […]
We’re off to the 3rd Annual Restoration Fall Retreat! Hope you are coming with us. Do you still have questions? I bet we answer them, here. The kids are excited, the leaves are turning and the sun will be shining as we head out to Massanetta Springs this weekend! Its going to be a relaxing weekend […]
