The vibrancy of life here at St. Peter’s makes my service on our staff a joy and privilege. Visitation, teaching and preaching are the ministries that feed my pastoral identity, as together our staff and lay members share in our missional calling … Building a community of faith by God’s grace.
College Devotion, Easter 6 Show yourself in all respects a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, gravity. –Titus 2:7, NRSV We talked a bit about spiritual mentors in church today. Pr. Sarah and I preached on the spiritual gifts of Evangelism, Faith, and Giving, and we both reflected on people who have…
College Devotion, Easter 5 Teach me good judgement and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments. –Psalm 119:66 Today we spoke about “Knowledge, Wisdom, and Teaching” as the spiritual gifts for this week in our sermon series. You guys should be the experts on this topic. You cram your minds full of knowledge … you surround…
Email Devotion, Easter 5 “The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.” –Psalm 19:1 I’m currently reading a book called Spook, by Mary Roach. It is a scientific and investigative examination of a wide variety of experiences made by those who claim to be in touch with spirits in the…
Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week of Easter 4 April 17, 2016 So with yourselves; since you are eager for spiritual gifts, strive to excel in them for building up the church. (1 Corinthians 14:12) We are halfway through our Easter Sermon Series on “spiritual gifts.” Today we focused on gifts of “Artistry, Music,…
Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week of Easter 3 April 10, 2016 To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit. (1 Corinthians 12:8) On Saturday, we experienced what I believe was our “onion snow” for the year. According to…
Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Easter 3 April 10, 2016 And the one who was seated on the throne said, ‘See, I am making all things new.’ (Revelation 21:5) It was “Chestnut Central” at church today … a day when we sang three hymns between our two traditional services that are what church people…
