Category: Devotions

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Epiphany 4 January 31, 2016   In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit. (Ephesians 1:13, NRSV)   I’m not really a “tatt” kinda guy. …

Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week of Epiphany 3 January 24, 2016 Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. ~~ Allen Saunders              Your lives are constantly interrupted, right?  A call from a friend to meet for coffee … a FB post that invites your response … a text from…

Pastor’s Email Devotion The Week of Epiphany 3 January 24, 2016   Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years..  (Mark 5:25, NRSV)   Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. ~~ Allen Saunders   We all had full plates this weekend, right?  In…

Pastor’s Email College Devotion The Week of Epiphany 2 January 17, 2016   And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray.   (Matthew 14:23, NRSV)   Jesus’ life is filled with times when he was with people, and times when he was alone to pray and focus on…

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…