St. Andrews by the Lake

FEAST OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
Dear Friends,
I’m a little slow on the uptake — enjoying summer too much, I guess. Yesterday, June 24th, was the Feast of St. John the Baptist.  For most of us, that might slip by with not even a blip on the screen. But I ran across an […]

EASTER MUSINGS #5
 
     Have you ever wondered to yourself, ‘Where is God hiding?”  I have.  The Gospel of John talks about God being Spirit — and it’s hard to ’see’ Spirit.  It is probably one of our biggest challenges to faith — trusting something/someone we can’t see and touch.  But is that so?
     […]

 
     Here is a question for the day (or week to come):  How does your image of the resurrection influence your access to Christ? If you had been present at the moment of the resurrection of Jesus, what would you have seen? If there had been a video camera outside the tomb, what […]

EASTER MUSINGS #3
 
     There are two important questions for Christians to live into during this season of Easter:
          –What difference does my baptism make?
          –How will we know the risen Christ is in our lives today?
      The Great Fifty Days of Easter (known as Eastertide) became the honeymoon season for all Christians. For fifty glorious […]

EASTER MUSINGS - Week Two
    Greetings!
As the Easter season continues on (there are seven weeks in the season of Easter) toward our celebration of Pentecost, I’d like to offer you some short reflections on “Christ Presence”. As I mentioned last week, sometimes people think “Christ’ is Jesus’ last name. Really, the phrase […]

Here was our opening prayer for Easter morning:
 

Can you believe it? Easter is here! The tomb is empty! Christ is risen! Easter begins its flowering. That Morning Star that will never set sparkles joyfully through the early light of dawn. The Sun of our Eternal Day quietly emerges over the horizon. […]

  FOURTH WEEK IN LENT
 
                 Commit your life to God
                and justice will dawn for you.
                Your integrity will shine
                  like the noonday sun.
                     Psalm 37: 5-6
 
     About a dozen of us are preparing to attend a retreat at the House of Prayer. The focus of the weekend will be learning about the […]

THIRD WEEK IN LENT
 
       O God, you alone are gracious, good,
              and this is cause to give you thanks.
       We praise you for the love you’ve shown
               which never knows a limit but lasts forever.
       Let every creature touched by mercy’s hand declare
            that they have been redeemed from evil’s grasp.
   For you, […]

SECOND WEEK IN LENT
 
Dear Friends,
     In the mid-90’s, I completed a two year program at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Guidance. It was a time that greatly deepened my own spiritual journey and I had the opportunity to be influenced by such people as Tilden Edwards, Gerald May and Rosemary Dougherty — foundational people in […]

 
First Week in Lent
Dear Friends,
   During the next weeks in Lent, I will offer a short reflection on the upcoming Gospel for Sunday.  I hope it will be helpful to prepare for our weekly time of worship together, and to encourage you in your own Lenten Journey.
 
    “Calling the crowd to join his disciples, […]