September 22, 2019: The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. John Bagby
September 15, 2019: The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice Frazer
Too often we read a parable and are immediately tempted to assign all the parts. For instance, in today’s parables of lost things, we are quick to assign Jesus to the role of seeker and ourselves to the roles of the lost sheep or coin. There is nothing necessarily wrong with that, as a matter […]
September 8, 2019: The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. John Bagby
September 1, 2019: The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Drake Whitelaw
August 25, 2019: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice Frazer
We believe faith, and life, is easier when we have rules to live by. Sometimes we find value in those rules and other times we believe them to be unfair, antiquated, or not applicable to our own affairs. For the most part, we think of rules as a means to governing our behavior and allowing […]
August 18, 2019: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice Frazer
There is already too much division in the world, so when Jesus starts talking about bringing fire to the earth and division and then calls me out for not knowing how to interpret the present time, I get a little put off. I get to thinking I have enough people haranguing and judging me for […]
August 11, 2019: The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice Frazer
There is a scene in the last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in which Harry and Hermione are in the graveyard in Godric’s Hollow searching for Harry’s parents’ graves. As they search amongst the tombstones in the darkness, they come across the grave of Albus Dumbledore’s mother and sister. The epitaph […]
August 4, 2019: The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice Frazer
Several years ago, I took a group of thirty teenagers and adults on a mission trip to Trinidad. On one of our R and R days (Rest and Relaxation), we went to Maracas Beach. As we were swimming in the bay, we came upon hundreds and hundreds of sand dollars about six feet below the […]
June 21, 2019: The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, The Rev. Candice Frazer
I have a chore chart on the side of my fridge that tells me what household tasks to do on particular days. On Mondays I vacuum and wash towels. On Tuesdays I change the bedding and wash the sheets. On Wednesdays I dust and wash darks. On Thursdays I clean bathrooms and wash whites. On […]