Advent is officially one week away. How are you feeling about it? Will this be the year you are finally able to slow down and enjoy this season of preparation? Grow Christians tries every November to ready our community to do just that.
“But we already went to church today!” my son said plaintively. “That’s right,” I replied, but “it was my church;
When I first attended the Episcopal Church as an evangelical, low-church college student, the liturgical service had a foreign choreography.
As a parent, moving a family creates a sense of dread and anticipation all wrapped into one.
We can pattern our lives at home after the pattern we see in the liturgy.
If I want to be able to absorb all the new life Easter has to offer – all the resistance it offers to the powers of sin in our broken world – I need the grace that comes with honest confession and repentance.
My dad didn’t just explain football to me—he and mom explained what was going on in church too: what we were doing and why it was important. Now I do the same.
