Author: Rev. Craig Ross

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Epiphany 2 January 17, 2016   And the Word became flesh and lived among us.  (John 1:14, NRSV)   I’ve always loved Jesus’ parables.  I’m a lover of stories more than doctrine, so that’s part of it.  I’m also a visual learner, and the parables are as visual as…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Epiphany 1 January 10, 2016   When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’  (John 20:22, NRSV)   Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Christmas 2 January 3, 2016   But the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. …

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Advent 4 December 20, 2015   And the Word became flesh and lived among us.  (John 1:14)   The Vicar’s sermon today got me thinking about Christmas movies.  We all have our collection of “have to see movies” without which, the season seems incomplete.  I have many that are…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Advent 1 November 29, 2015   ‘Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. (Luke 12:35-36, NRSV)…

Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week of Advent 1 November 29, 2015   I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.  (2 Timothy 4:7, NRSV)   This is a Bible verse most often used to speak to the end of life.  But I offer it to you…

Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week following Christ the King Sunday November 22, 2015   For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week following Christ the King Sunday November 22, 2015   For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the…