ablaze
I have spoken to many, cried with some and cursed with others. “It feels as if the House is on fire!” exclaimed a young seminarian. And I must agree. But this I know...God is still in control. Blessed be God! Blessed be His Holy Name! And if He chooses to allow the House to come down around our ears and start fresh with a handful of faithful men and women, so be it. We have a Firm Foundation- that foundation is Jesus Christ our Lord who built His House upon the Rock... “And s
pray pray pray
After personally experiencing betrayal of trust on a deep level at a tender age and then again in a Protestant church scandal while in college, I found myself asking the question can anyone or anything be fully trusted? Is there someone or something that will never let me down? What I found then I share with you now. The answer is really a very sad, no. Well, at least not on this earth. The only One Who is fully worthy of our complete and total trust, love and loyalty, is God
sing!
Psalm: Latin psalmus, from Greek psalmos, literally = "twanging of a harp," from psallein "to pluck, play a stringed musical instrument." Fleeing madly into the desert on foot with the Egyptian army pressing hard upon their heels--spike-laden chariots drawn by powerful beasts, hot breathed, closing in fast-- the Israelites were forced to a screeching halt. What lay before them--a massive expanse of water--too deep to cross on foot, too broad to safely swim. What to do? Turn b
transfigured
Transfigured: (Greek) metamorphóō (from metá, "change after being with"+ morphóō, "changing form in keeping with inner reality") meta+morphosis = to be transformed. This past week we celebrated in the Church my favorite story in all of the Bible –The Transfiguration of Jesus on Mt. Tabor. This story has captured my heart and imagination since early childhood. Funny enough, so did another story. But only after reading the fantastic book, The Wellspring of Worship, did I find
eighth day
Warning: reading this blog may result in your pausing to cross yourself at every stop sign. Proceed with caution and read at your own risk. Octogon=from Latin "octagonos", from Greek okta+gononos = "eight-angled". Genesis 1:1-2:3 states that God created the world in six days and on the seventh day He rested. “The Sabbath” = Hebrew, shabbat (שבת) the day on which we are “to cease” from work-- falls on the seventh day of the week, Saturday, and thus the Jewish people worked for
