From the Pastor

“He is Risen” is such a weird sentence when you really think about it.Surely we mean that Christ was Resurrected two thousand years ago,right? And yet, that isn’t what we sing on Easter Morning. Instead,we sing “Christ The Lord IS Risen Today!” It’s like how, on Christmas Eve, we declare the child being born as…

As we enter into the Season of Lent, I think it is important toremember who precisely we are supposed to be. We are notperfect. We are not God. We are not the glorious angelic choirsent to dispense perfect justice to the world.Instead, we are humans. Broken, sinful, hurting humans. Just likethe ones who went before.…

As I am writing this I am awaiting a cold snap, to hit tonight and tomorrow, which, in all likelihood, will be the coldest the winter gets this year. We’ve already cancelled choir and handbell practice for tonight, and I’m watching with interest as various things in the community start to shut down as well.…

I think a lot, sometimes, about the “Reason for the Season.”The importance of Christmas is often overstated. After all, of our four gospels, only four felt any need to discuss the birth of Christ. The Gospel of Mark begins with Jesus as grown man, and the Gospel of John goes all the way back to…

Happy New Year! No, I didn’t send this out a month early. With Advent begins thenew Christian Liturgical Calendar, our New Year. No, I’m not going to quiz you on this. (Unless Lily asks for triviaquestions again next Lent… hmmm…) But it is worth remembering. We finish the old liturgical year withChrist the King Sunday…

The Holidays are coming, and with them good food, good music, goodgatherings, the whole nine yards. But it also comes with heartbreakand sorrow. Empty seats at the table, in the sanctuary. Friends andfamily gone, sometimes from loss, other times from division.What makes it even more difficult is how we always WANT toprovide the same happiness…