advent
“With God there is joy, and from him it comes down and seizes spirit, soul, and body. And where this joy has seized a person, it reaches out around itself, it pulls others along, it bursts through closed doors. There…
Lenten Sketchbook 2011 – Paul Soupiset
Paul Soupiset, friend and designer from San Antonio who also played a part in designing the All Saints logo, is amassing a new set of Lent sketches. Here's how he explains it: "This sketchbook builds on an earlier project I…
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…
Advent Sympathy
You may have noticed that at All Saints we’re still celebrating Advent, not Christmas … at least not yet. We sing “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” every Sunday, but not “Joy to the World, the Lord is Come." I’m sorry…
Daily prayer scraps
Tim Keller shares some thoughts on daily prayer and Bible reading in a brief blog post, Scraps of Thoughts on Daily Prayer – interesting to get a little insight into his own disciplines; invaluable in sharing some helpful resources which…
Bring back the Sabbath
When we moved to Austin in 1994 from Switzerland, our family thought we were coming home. As Americans in Switzerland we had been strangers in a strange land, cut off from the English language, college football, Tex-Mex and other such…