Lent, Ash Wednesday, and All Saints #2
To participate well in an Ash Wednesday service one has to understand the season of Lent. To understand Lent one has to see it within the context of the entire Christian year. So the church calendar is where we must…
Lent, Ash Wednesday, and All Saints
Next week (Wed. March 9) All Saints will host its first Ash Wednesday service (actually we will offer two services – one at noon at Red River Church and one at 5:30 PM at St. Gabriel’s.) Why are we doing…
Marking The Days That Have Marked Us
“We choose to mark (certain) dates because in some way they have marked us.” – Bobby Gross Everyone has certain dates that are charged with meaning. Consider children and birthdays or wives and wedding anniversaries. Then there’s baseball fans and…
Money, Beauty, Perfectionism, and Me
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Jesus said that. In fact he talked a lot about riches, saying things…
“the ineffable enjoyment of an unmixed good”
One of my best friends called me yesterday and asked me to write a letter to his oldest son, who just graduated from high school. At All Saints we’ve just started a sermon series that will follow the Old Testament…