by Patricia Templeton | Mar 16, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Yesterday in church I said that this service may very well be the last time we gather together in person for worship. Today I have made the difficult decision that we will indeed suspend in-person worship for the foreseeable future. The CDC has...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 15, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
First this morning, I have to recognize the irony that two out of three of our scripture readings are about living water in the same week that we emptied the baptismal font as a precaution against the coronavirus. Perhaps that...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 14, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, General
“You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”1 Peter 2:5 Dear friends, Today we received word from Bishop Wright that although he is not...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 11, 2020 | ANNOUNCEMENTS
All of the clergy in the diocese received an email from Bishop Wright today with new directives concerning Sunday worship in the age of the coronavirus. Here is what will be our “new normal” until this pandemic has run its course:1. There will be no...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 8, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Years ago I was interviewing people for a position at the church where I worked. One woman seemed very qualified for the job, and came across as competent, capable, and personable. The interview took an unexpected turn when she asked me a question: “What is your...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 1, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Baptisms are cause for celebration. After almost every baptism there is a special reception at church, often followed by another party at home for family and friends. That was not the case for Jesus. He was baptized by his cousin John at age 30 in...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 23, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Today we come to the end of the season of Epiphany, what is known as the season of light. Epiphany always begins and ends the same way. The first Sunday of the season is always the time we celebrate Jesus’ baptism. And the last Sunday of the season is always the...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 9, 2020 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
“With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and orphan,...
