Dear Diocesan Family As many of you know, at our June Provincial Assembly we had the joy and privilege of receiving the 2019 ACNA Book of Common Prayer. May the Lord be praised! This is … Read More
Signpost #10 – Rehearsing Helplessness!
It’s almost over. Moses has died, and so has the generation of Israel who failed to take the land of Canaan when God wanted to give it. This time for sure! Joshua sends in spies … Read More
Signpost #9 – Almost Home!
In his important book, Being Mortal, Atul Gawande unpacks some unexpected results of research about what makes for peace and stability at the end of life. He first reports on a study which found that … Read More
Signpost #8 – Fear Lies
We are hearing the word lies every day now in the news. Charges and counter charges. Are certain political leaders lying to us? Or is it the media? Most of us, if we’re honest, have a gnawing … Read More
Signpost #7 – Identity Idolatry
Do you ever wish, as I do, that God would hand you His personality inventory assessment of you, kind of like a divine Myers-Briggs report? King David cries out for it in Psalm 139: Search me, … Read More
Signpost #6 – Remember!
Eleven troubling habits of chronically unhappy people. Five ways to spice up your marriage. Seven reasons to stay single. Eight steps to managing stress. Ten reasons twenty-somethings are returning to traditional worship … Is anyone … Read More
Signpost #5 – Vent Rightly!
There’s an almost comical sameness to the way God’s people respond to the difficulties God allows them to experience in the Wilderness. They wail. They rail. They rage and accuse. For some reason this reminds … Read More
Signpost #4 – Just In Case!
When our three daughters were small, they invited a neighborhood boy to our church’s Friday night children’s program. Jay came, and loved it. The next day he appeared at our back door, face alight, eager … Read More
Signpost #3 – Just Do It!
It’s over! The deliverance has been accomplished! The people God has chosen and made his own have walked through the sea, with walls of water standing back for them on both sides (Exodus 14:22, 29). … Read More
Signpost #2 – Assume Deliverance
So here are the people of Israel, a million strong. Having experienced the miraculous deliverance of Passover and hurriedly left their homes in Egypt, they have been driven in to a desolate and fearful dead … Read More
Signpost #1 – Helplessness is Helpful!
THE FIRST SIGNPOST The first signpost to catch my attention is the one our Zin Canyon hike underscored. It might read:HELPLESSNESS IS HELPFUL! Saved from the final plague of the angel of death by the … Read More
Faces (Invisibility)
We say he is the image of the invisible God, (Col. 1:15) but even in his coming to us and taking on flesh, Jesus is still invisible. Willing to be invisible… unrecognized… unacknowledged. You can … Read More
Know That I Know
A year of grieving loss is about to close for our family. We sat beside two dying loved ones a year ago this summer. First was my husband’s mother, and then my sister. Both times … Read More
Do…Then See
One of the most oft repeated principles taught at the recent ACNA conference at Ridgecrest was Bishop Todd Hunter’s reminder: obedience precedes understanding. The phrase is variously attributed to the church fathers, George McDonald, and … Read More