Growing in Faith

When the festival was ended and they started to return, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. Assuming that he was in the group of travelers, they went a day's journey. Then they started to look for him among their relatives and friends.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

One of the Christmas Eve traditions I have encountered at every Episcopal Church I have been associated with throughout my life is the singing of Silent Night after communion has been concluded

Think about Bethlehem for a moment. The birth we celebrate this night could have happened anywhere but, in a sense, it took place nowhere

Last year, I told you about the Advent calendar my aunt gave us. It is an Advent calendar unlike any I had seen before...

There is still time to prepare ourselves for the wonder of God incarnate.

You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

It is easy to be a crazy prophet out in the wilderness where there is no one to avoid you, make fun of you, persecute you or doubt you. John's challenge was that when the word of God came to him out in the safety of his wilderness, he up and brought that wilderness of faith, that wilderness of God's voice, into the center of society where it was not entirely welcome.

Changing Direction