|
Thank You, God, for Hands |
PDF
|
| Print |
|
E-mail
|
David Mathewson, St. John’s-Grace, Buffalo
Do you ever think about hands? I do. As an organist, the smooth,
reliable functioning of my hands is essential for making the music
which is at the center of my life. Somewhere in my mid to late
twenties, when I began to slowly develop tendonitis, arthritis, and
carpal tunnel syndrome, my hand became an almost daily concern.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Theology doesn’t have to be dry and obscure |
PDF
|
| Print |
|
E-mail
|
|
The Rev. Steven Metcalfe Calvary Church, Williamsville
Two important feast days in the life of the church occur in May.
Pentecost comes on May 11 and Trinity Sunday rolls in the Sunday after.
While these don’t enjoy the popularity of Easter or Christmas, they
both point to singular aspects of our life of faith as Christians.
|
|
Last Updated ( Monday, May 05, 2008 )
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
“Tune in” to the Holy Spirit |
PDF
|
| Print |
|
E-mail
|
|
Stacy Lampman, St. Andrew’s, Burt
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
Against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23
I think about the Holy Spirit in my life like a car radio station
that is not completely tuned in. I am trying to hear but there is
static and it fades in and out.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
A Man Ahead of his Time |
PDF
|
| Print |
|
E-mail
|
|
The Rev. Deacon Polly Bowen St. Matthias’s, East Aurora
The 2nd year Education for Ministry classes are currently studying the
writings of St. Paul. This is a man who has come down to us carrying a
great deal of baggage—ideas picked up over the centuries and handed on
to us.
|
|
Last Updated ( Monday, April 28, 2008 )
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Bad Things Do Happen |
PDF
|
| Print |
|
E-mail
|
|
Paul Schwartzmyer St. Peter's, Eggerstville
Mondays are very busy in pharmacies, and mine is no exception. Ten percent of my business for the whole week arrives between 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on a typical Monday. So when the phone rang at 1:50 p.m. on this particular Monday . . .
|
|
Last Updated ( Monday, April 28, 2008 )
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Christ is Risen – Alleluia! |
PDF
|
| Print |
|
E-mail
|
The Rev. Canon Barbara J. Price, St. Peter’s Church, Eggertsville
Now that little green shoots are tentatively poking their heads
out of the ground, it’s a bit easier to use the language of
resurrection. In the ancient days, the worship of many different
deities in a variety of cultures
|
|
Last Updated ( Tuesday, April 22, 2008 )
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
The Good News of Easter |
PDF
|
| Print |
|
E-mail
|
|
The Rev. Eric Williams, rector St. Luke's, Jamestown, NY
A lot of what we celebrate at Easter has nothing at all to do with Jesus. The name Easter itself comes from the Anglo-Saxon fertility goddess Eostre who was associated with rabbits because of their famous ability to reproduce.
|
|
Last Updated ( Monday, March 31, 2008 )
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Promises & Fig Trees |
PDF
|
| Print |
|
E-mail
|
Leon Mozeliak, Interim priest St. Paul's, Harris Hill
One of the promises each of us vowed at our baptism is "[I promise to] continue in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of the bread and in the prayers." As we live in the day-to-day realities if life, how do we stay true to this promise made to God?
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Holy Week in Real Time |
PDF
|
| Print |
|
E-mail
|
|
Jack Marshall, rector Christ Church, Lockport
The message of Easter is wonderfully varied. Each Christian of every denomination and those who are not aligned with any church can glean the renewal of Easter. The man, Jesus of Nazareth, defeated and destroyed in death finds his life renewed and restored as
|
|
Last Updated ( Wednesday, March 05, 2008 )
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
P.S. I Love You |
PDF
|
| Print |
|
E-mail
|
|
by Rob Peterson, member of St. John's Grace
Using death and resurrection as metaphor, we might see how there may be many deaths and resurrections occurring throughout our lives. We might see a firing from employment, divorce, failure at school, moving from an old familiar community to a new one, overcoming a bad habit, conquering an addiction and experiencing the death of a loved one as examples
|
|
Last Updated ( Tuesday, March 04, 2008 )
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Spirituality & Faith 