I had a really encouraging and enjoyable time last Sunday morning teaching our 2015 Confirmation Class. I began by having them tell me their full names so I could connect them with their families. It was such a delight to...
Hello Dear Friends, In our scripture lesson this week Jesus says “unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” (John 12:24) I want...
OK, so I caught it from a lot of women last week. I should have known better, having had three women in my house for all these years. You didn’t care about how I looked as Father of the Bride....
After two weekends of wedding ceremony and celebration, the Barnes-Allgire-Summersgill extended family is back home. The wedding was on the beach on New Providence Island in The Bahamas, where Nassau is located, but at the extreme southwest side of the...
Well… we are one week into Lent, one week since Ash Wednesday, one week into our preparation for Holy Week… how’s it going? Click here to view complete weekly update. To subscribe to newsletters and devotion emails, please complete the...
We hope you were able to join us for the Ash Wednesday worship service which kicked off our Lenten series. It was a powerful service featuring each of our adult music ministries-Sanctuary Choir, Praise Team and Gospel Choir leading...
The final sermon in our “We Believe” sermon series on The Apostles’ Creed takes us this weekend to the third section of the affirmation, which lifts up our belief in the Holy Spirit, the universal church, the forgiveness of our...
Dear St. Lukers: After Sunday night’s incredible end to the Superbowl, I was thinking about how to connect that (or perhaps one of the commercials) to this week’s update. But then, on Tuesday, ISIS released a video of their burning...
Dear St. Lukers, Thank you for you many kind emails, Facebook posts, and personal contacts in response to my retirement announcement last Sunday. If you missed it, here are the links to the video announcement and my letter. Very...
As a follow-up to last Sunday’s sharing of the ways in which we have felt “known” by God, this week we want to share with you our individual calls to the ordained ministry. We are in covenant with more than...
This week in worship we will be exploring a text from the Gospel of John, where the soon-to-be-called disciple, Nathanael, learns that Jesus had seen him (and apparently known him) before Nathanael ever met him. (Read John 1:43-50). Welcome to...
The feedback on last week’s kick off to “You Asked…And the Pastors Answer” was very positive. All five of us enjoyed the opportunity to share together with you. I know that in typical Bill style I talked too much, but...
