Advent is one of my favorite seasons. As a person who did not grow up celebrating Advent, I have absolutely fallen in love with it. Advent is beautiful and holy and full of hope! (If you’d like to read more why you should follow the Church calendar in your home this Advent, you can read…
Why You Should Follow the Church Calendar with Your Family at Home This Advent
“For everything there is a season” (Ecclesiastes 3:10)—I am sure you know the verse well. We are all familiar with it, and yet it is so often misused. People will often quote the verse in response to a bad thing that has happened or a hard time that you are going through. But if you…
Baking the Body: How to Make Homemade Communion Bread for Your Church
For the past ten years, I’ve made homemade Communion bread from the same handwritten recipe on a molasses-stained scrap from a yellow legal pad. A team of volunteer bread-bakers in my small church plant now shares this recipe. They follow it each week to bring homemade loaves to our Communion table. I’ve got absolutely nothing…
Family Discipleship
We need a revival of family discipleship that begins in the home. Parenting is an amazing responsibility. I will never forget February 25, 2004. It was the day our first daughter was born. It was the day that I became a parent, which was a very emotional day. After a long day of labor, my…
The Wedding, Anglican Style
At an Anglican wedding, almost everyone can leave happy. Here are a few areas by which our weddings differ (or should) from your typical American wedding. Other areas are included because of contemporary relevance. I offer this in the hope of explaining what we do; I also persuade people to see that the reasons behind…
