Relating to Family & Friends
IntroductionWhat follows is a piece that I needed to write for myself and those around us who love us and pray for us. If you are hunting for polemic, I pray you will be greatly disappointed here. Rather, this is a personal reflection about personal reasons that my family and I joined the Episcopal Church. It is an attempt to ...
Every now and then things just come together in such a way that one has the sense that God is writing his poetry across one's life. Today has been a moment like that for me.My daughter, Ashley, has been patiently waiting for admission to the Lord's Table for months now. Recently she would address the priests directly while Cynthia and ...
For those who care (and I don't care much) about the NFL playoffs, you might like my completely random choices for which teams will win in the first round of the playoffs. Let's see if my arbitrary algorithm works.
Carolina will win at Pittsburgh because I just have to have something to rib Aiden Houk about. See score.
Seattle will win ...
I am at one of my favorite cafes in Dallas preparing for the sermon I am preaching tomorrow. While waiting in line I looked up and saw a man walking into the bathroom that looked just like Dustin Salter. He was tall and had the same sort of bend to his neck (the difficulty that tall people seem to have ...
My wife just launched the new version of her blog, percaritatem.com (converted from blogger to Word ...
Rarely do we get places in life in a straight line. This is especially true for my family. Monday, March 1, I took a new position at PCPC and ended my internship. I am very excited about the opportunity to contribute in the Communications Ministry here at the church.
We decided to take this position for a number ...
I am quite floored to see how quickly we human beings can learn. I am also amazed at the gifts God has given to some people to teach certain and varied ages of children and adults (I am thinking about those who teach my daughter at the child development facility she attends). Catechism has been a means of ...
Email meDirect us, O Lord, in all our doings with your most gracious favor and further us with your continual help; that in all our works begun, continued and ended in you, we may glorify your holy Name, and finally by your mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
O God, by whom the meek are guided ...
J. Alan Groves (b. December 17, 1952) met his Savior face to face on February 5 at the age of 54. He is survived by his wife of 28 years, Elizabeth W. Davis Groves; by his four children, Alasdair and wife Lauren, Rebeckah, Eowyn, and Alden; and by his parents James and Jacqueline Groves and his siblings Warren, Jill, ...
Nielsen DigitalAll assume that I am with my wife, for to be without her there is not a place I would want to be at all, ever.
1. Any place but Texas
2. In a church body that demonstrates Christ in community and daily worship/living (that is not to say that the one that I am at does not do ...
