Why Do We Need Art In Worship?
“We do not merely want to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words – to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it,…
Lent, Ash Wednesday, and All Saints
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and All Saints is offering two worship services so that, as a church, we may become more fully like the people spoken of by Jesus in his Beatitudes – “the poor in spirit,” “those who mourn,”…
On Keeping a Holy Lent
by: Pastor Craig Higgins http://www.trinitychurch.cc/Resources-For-Lent People from different religious backgrounds have very different reactions to the season of Lent. Some grow up in churches where Lent is observed, but with little to no real explanation. Whether observed as a time…
The Nativity
Among the oxen (like an ox I’m slow) I see a glory in the stable grow Which, with the ox’s dullness might at length Give me an ox’s strength. Among the asses (stubborn I as they) I see my Saviour…
Christmas movie magic
Somewhere down the line on the list of things that make Christmas special and unique – you know, after Jesus, family, etc. – is one my favorite holiday traditions: Christmas movies. The ubiquitous, unavoidable and unrelenting barrage of Christmas movies….
“culturally irrelevant”
“. . . the church is not competing with Starbucks, the mall, or the movie theater for audiences. I think Henri Nouwen gets it right [in his In the Name of Jesus – ed.] when he says that the leaders…
Letter From Melissa Kummerer
On Sunday, we welcomed 51 people into membership at All Saints, and baptized 12 children. It is pretty easy to see this evidence of growth and blessing at All Saints, as we move toward our 9th birthday in September. But…