An Update from Israel – Sept. 2

Dear Friends in Christ, “I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem-built as a city that is bound firmly together. To it the tribes go up, the tribes of the...

An Update from Israel – Aug. 31

Dear Friends in Christ, ” How beautiful upon the mountains     are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news,     who announces salvation,     who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” Listen! Your sentinels lift up their voices,...

Hurricane Harvey

August 28, 2017 Dear Friends in Christ, “But now thus says the Lord,     he who created you, O Jacob,     he who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;     I have called you by name, you are mine....

A Guest Message from Bishop Mauney

Dear Friends in Christ, “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all” (Ephesians 4:4-6). The words and...

A Message on Prayer

Dear Friends in Christ, “I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers” (Ephesians 1:16). In almost all of St. Paul’s New Testament letters, he begins with a standard Salutation and then launches into a Prayerful Doxology or a...

It’s been a Week of Darkness

August 14, 2017 Dear Friends in Christ, “For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light-for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true. Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no...