It doesn’t matter how you learned to pray, the great equalizer is the prayer of desperation, the upside-down prayer, the prayer we pray with our backs up against the wall. And for so many people, scratch the surface of this holiday season and the New Year, and you will find times of great trial as…
O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. -Is 64:8 As our annual Parish Assembly is before us, we will be looking at ourselves a lot in the mirror as a church community. Our wonderful treasurer, David Kazarian, will have…
Often our lives take us in a different direction than we wanted, a worse direction it seems, until we grow to see our situation with the eyes of God. This is not the work of one sermon, this is the work of a lifetime. To guide us in this spiritual re-orientation, I want to use…