Dear Friends and Family of Grace Church, As I’m preparing this message this morning, I’m wondering just how many of us might be struggling to “feel it” as we prepare for Christmas. It’s often said that when the Preacher “exhorts”…
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Dear Grace Church Family and Friends, Today, as I write on this Monday, December 6th, is St. Nicholas’ feast day. Yes! That St. Nicholas! It is also the first full day of our two new kittens that arrived yesterday in…
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Dear Grace Church Family and Friends, There are moments when current circumstances really can make us think of all Human endeavor as a “Rat Race”. Or, as the writer of Ecclesiastes would put it, “a chasing after wind” (Ecclesiastes 1:1…
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Panic or Blessing? Dear Grace Church Family and Friends, This Sunday is Christ the King Sunday. That means that our worship this Sunday will be emphasizing the Kingship of Jesus: his rule, or reign of love over the world and…
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Dear Grace Church Family and Friends, This whole week is “sandwiched” between All Saints Day celebrations: All Saints Day on Monday, to All Saints Sunday this coming Sunday. (Yes, this next Sunday is, technically, the start of next week, but…
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Dear Grace Church Family, Is it possible to know joy in these times of social unrest, tragic death, and human hate? Jesus tells us that there is such a thing as an unassailable joy. He even tells us how to…
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Dear Grace Church Family, Are you struggling to grow your spiritual life? If you’re having a tough time with it, the struggle may be the problem itself. In Jesus teaching in the Gospel According to John, he tells us how…
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Dear Grace Church Family, The following devotional is from our Bishop, The Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde. In this reflection on Psalm 90, she looks at the place she now inhabits in her life’s journey, and considers where that journey is…
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Dear Grace Church Family, Wisdom can sometimes sound like platitudes. But, when those “pithy” sayings of our elders are based on a life well-lived, then they are worth paying attention. Such is the case with our Psalmist this day, as…
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Dear Grace Church Family, This morning, a young mother and her child reminded me of the way to serenity. She is the Psalmist, the composer of Psalm 131 that follows last week’s Psalm 130. I can’t imagine a more needed…
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