If we’re honest, isn’t that what we long for?  To know there is something bigger, something larger than anything we’ve imagined?  What would it feel like to completely and honestly give yourself over to something that is larger than our imagination?  Come and see.  Worship at St Timothy’s this Sunday.  Come at 7:30 for a contemplative service in the chapel.  Kneel in a space built by the first members of St Timothy’s and pray in a language that is as old as our unique Anglican heritage.  Or come at 9:00 …

The Gospel for Sunday, John 14.23-29, Jesus says this to his disciples:
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you.  I do not give as the world gives.
Interesting sentence: peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you.  What is the difference between leaving something and giving something?  Why would he say it like that?  Also the part about not giving as the world gives; is our idea of peace different from Christ’s?  How so?
It reminds me of what Jesus said in Luke 12:51 when he …

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Now, my plan today is to preach on the story of widow giving her money to the treasury, but before I do that I want to ask that you not get ahead of me and assume what I am going to say.
I never get nervous when this Gospel reading comes up, because I’m not afraid of the subject, but I do worry if the forest will be missed because of the trees you might think you’re going to see.
I’m aware that two years ago, Iowa senator Charles Grassley started a …