We’re working our way through the sixth chapter of Mark’s gospel this month, taking a deep look at what it means to live like Jesus. Living like Jesus is more than just doing what Jesus does, and saying what Jesus says. Living like Jesus means having the same purpose and identifying ourselves completely with Christ. …
You Can’t Go Home Again is a great American novel by Thomas Wolfe, published in 1940. The novel tells the story of George Webber, a novice author, who writes a book that turns out to be filled with references to his hometown of Libya Hill, which was actually Asheville, North Carolina. The book was an unqualified…
Our scripture today tells two very different, but intertwined stories: a parent desperately trying to save his daughter, and an unnamed woman desperately trying to save herself. First, we have Jairus, a leader of the local synagogue, who comes to Jesus, literally begging for Jesus to help him. Jairus is a man of great privilege:…
Three weeks after the celebration of Pentecost, we continue to hear scriptural stories and references about the Holy Spirit. Today’s Gospel is no different. Following Jesus’s crucifixion, resurrection and ascension into heaven, the apostles continue to grapple with what it means to accept God’s gift of the Holy Spirit into their lives. Others continue to…
Greetings everyone! Today we celebrate The Feast of Pentecost. Today is our Christian celebration of the birth of our church as recounted in the second chapter of the biblical book titled, The Acts of the Apostles. This book is also written by St. Luke and follows his gospel telling of the life of Christ. The story…
As most of you know, we have a lot of children in our parish and preschool. I love watching your children grow, and I marvel at the rapid changes in their lives, changes that daily take place. One of the things I find so fascinating is the independence that begins to develop at a very…
Have any of you ever raised chickens? Or have you visited a farm or perhaps a zoo where you might have seen a mother hen sitting on a nest of eggs? Have you ever thought about what it must be like to be a baby chick inside one of those eggs? Let’s talk about that. …
The story begins under humble circumstances but builds momentum over time: a woman and a man talking in a cemetery under the cover of darkness on an early Sunday morning. The woman is Mary Magdalene. In movies, she is usually portrayed as having the looks of Angelina Jolie and the morals of Mother Theresa – an…
“Holed Up for a Year, I Hope…” Holy Week blog post from Chuck McCoart Today, March 11th, is the one year anniversary on which the World Health Organization acknowledged what had already become a reality, that the world we knew was dealing with a deadly pandemic. About a week later, California would become the first…
Welcome to Emmanuel Voices’ Holy Week Series “Holed Up for a Year, I Hope…” Premiering Saturday, March 27, 2021 Click to listen. “Holed Up for a Year, I Hope…” is a Holy Week blogging project that I dreamed up. A few weeks ago in our Thursday Weekly E-news, this is the call I put out…
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