AuthorRev. Craig Ross

Former Senior Pastor
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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.

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Pastor’s Email Devotion, May 3, 2015

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Easter 5 — May 3, 2015 I have baptized you with water; but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.’.” (Mark 1:8, NRSV) I bought it twenty-five years ago … then sold it or gave it away or threw it away ten years after that … and now…

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Pastor’s Email Devotion, Week of April 19, 2015

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Easter 3 April 19, 2015 Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. 14Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name…

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Pastor’s Email Devotion, April 12, 2015

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Easter 2 April 12, 2015 As you go, proclaim the good news, “The kingdom of heaven has come near.” (Matthew 10:7, NRSV) As I was leaving church yesterday following the wedding over which I officiated, I was struck by this small patch of snow clinging to our parking lot.…

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Pastor’s Email Devotion, April 5, 2015

Pastor’s Email Devotion Easter Sunday Week April 5, 2015 “But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared.” (Luke 24:1, NRSV) I was at church a little earlier this morning, since first service started earlier. It was still dark in the…

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Pastor’s Email Devotion, Week of March 29th

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Sunday of Holy Week March 29, 2015 “But you, beloved, are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief; for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.” (1 Thessalonians 5:4-5, NRSV) As a matter…

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Pastor’s Email Devotion, March 15, 2015

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Lent 4 March 15, 2015 Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial;* the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.’ (Matthew 26:41, NRSV) The number is familiar … 666. You may have seen it on little Damien’s head in the…