The Expected and Eventual City
*Originally published on October 28, 2016 in Every Thought Captive, a devotional of the North Texas Presbytery and Park Cities Presbyterian Church. “For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and…
Inhabiting Our Space: Liturgy Changes, Part 3
*This is the third of a three-part series on changes to our liturgy. Read the last two posts here.* The third, and final new liturgical dance step to introduce is the simplest and requires the least explanation – kneeling. There…
Inhabiting our Space: Liturgy Changes, Part 2
*This is the second of a three-part series on changes to our liturgy. Read yesterday’s post here.* Our second change is the addition of a “Gospel Procession”. Huh? That’s just a fancy liturgical way of saying that we’re going embody…
Inhabiting our Space: Liturgy Changes, Part 1
It’s an exciting week for All Saints! On Sunday we celebrated our final worship services at St. Gabriel’s. And this weekend marks our entrance into our new church facility with a Consecration Service on Friday followed by the first Sunday…
No More Saber-Tooth?!?!
It wasn’t until Monday morning that I realized how big a day last Sunday was for our church. Two Sundays ago, on August 16, we commissioned our first church plant and had a spectacular celebratory picnic, highlighted by a dunk tank, bounce house,…
Reflection for Good Friday
from Wendell Berry, A Timbered Choir, p. 25 “What hard travail God does in death! He strives in sleep, in our despair, And all flesh shudders underneath The nightmare of His sepulcher. The earth shakes, grinding its deep stone; All…
Evolution and Reductionism
“In our world,” said Eustace, “ a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.” “Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.” -C.S. Lewis in The Voyage…