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  • 4th Sunday in Lent – Year C

    4th Sunday in Lent – Year C

    JOSHUA 5: 9-12A story of forgiveness and restoration for God’s people. Question: Has there been a time in your life when God has withheld something from your daily life? How did you feel when it was restored? 2 CORINTHIANS 5: 16-21 Paul’s is concerned that the people he has come to teach believe that his…

  • 3rd Sunday in Lent – Year C

    3rd Sunday in Lent – Year C

    EXODUS 3: 1-25God intervenes in Moses life, giving him a task that will test his faith and love of God.Question: Has God ever asked the seemingly impossible of you, to test your faith in Him? How did you respond? 1 Corinthians 10: 1-13 Paul teaches from experience the importance of understanding and using our knowledge…

  • 2nd Sunday in Lent – Year C

    2nd Sunday in Lent – Year C

    GENESIS 15: 1-12, 17-18 In spite of the visions God shared with Moses and Moses’ experience of faith in God’s promises, Moses is skeptical. Question: Have you ever felt like Moses? How did you overcome it? PHILLIPIANS 3: 17-4:1 Paul holds before us an ideal of how the Christian is to embrace his Christian life.…

  • 1st Sunday of Lent – Year C

    1st Sunday of Lent – Year C

    DEUTERONOMY 26: 1-11Our response to the generosity of God’s gifts is taught in this lesson.Question: Do you freely give back to God from his gifts to you in ministry? What is it you do? ROMANS 10: 8-13Paul shares the theology from which the first Christian creeds were established. To know Jesus the Christ in a…

  • Open Wide the Window of our Spirits

    Open Wide the Window of our Spirits

    Lent 2019 We will soon be entering the Season of Lent. Lent is not only a time for us personally to look inward as it were “soul searching” but it is also the Church inviting us corporately and collectively as the People of God to introspection and study. It is not meant to be just…

  • Lenten Thoughts 2019

    Lenten Thoughts 2019

    When I think of Lent, I think of daffodils. To bloom, daffodils must have a period of quiet (twelve to sixteen weeks) underground in the silent, cool darkness. During that time, a daffodil slowly develops roots as it takes in nutrients from the soil. It then goes dormant, resting, before beginning the inner formation of…

  • Walking the Way of Love

    Join our Presiding Bishop as he discusses “The Way of Love” Click here to learn more and begin your journey.

  • Christmas Message to The Episcopal Community 2018

    Christmas Message to The Episcopal Community 2018

    Beloved in Christ, I send each of you in the Episcopal Community greetings and my prayers for a blessed Christmas Season.  As Christians we gather on Christmas to celebrate the birth of Jesus who was born in a stable because there was no room in the Inn.  As disciples of Jesus we take time during…

  • Advent: A time to prepare

    Advent: A time to prepare

    Greetings from The Rt. Rev. Philip Duncan We are about to enter the Advent Season: a time to prepare for the celebration when we will remember God coming into His creation as one of us. Advent is a time of getting ready for the birth of Christ Jesus our Lord. For many of us, it…

  • General Convention 79 – Austin, TX

    July 4 – 11, 2018 Join us as we gather to serve The Episcopal Church. We will participate in the ECW Triennial. Nancy Young, National President and Patti Joy Posan, National Vice President, will lead a workshop at Triennial, “Wake Up! See! Hear! Share!” On July 8th we will gather for our Annual Meeting and…