Thoughts on Faith

Join us for our recorded last session studying the Psalms, which includes some live singing!

Join us each week at 11:00am in person at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 2:00pm on Zoom (email me for link), or anytime here for the recorded session of our study on the Psalms.

Here is session five:

Join us each week at 11:00am in person at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 2:00pm on Zoom (email me for link), or anytime here for the recorded session of our study on the Psalms.

Here is session four:

Join us each week at 11:00am in person at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 2:00pm on Zoom (email me for link), or anytime here for the recorded session of our study on the Psalms.

Here is session three:

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Join us each week at 11:00am in person at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 2:00pm on Zoom (email me for link), or anytime here for the recorded session of our study on the Psalms.

Here is session two:

Today at Good Shepherd we started a 6 week study on the Psalms which follows biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann’s categories of Psalms of Orientation, Psalms of Disorientation, and Psalms of New Orientation. You can join us!

We meet in person at 11:00am (masks required) and on Zoom on Wednesdays at 2:00pm.

You can also watch our recorded Zoom session each week. Here is today’s:

I also invite you to join us in reading all 150 Psalms in 6 weeks.
You can find the daily reading schedule here:

For 800 years Franciscans have gathered around the globe on the evening of October 3rd to commemorate the death of St. Francis of Assisi who died on this day in 1226. This evening I was able to pray, reflect, and celebrate with my new community here at Good Shepherd and I am incredible grateful for the beautiful service we had this evening! I also preached my second sermon of the day! Which you can find below along with the bulletin for the service of the Transitus of St. Francis.

Find the full text here.

Find the whole text here.

Learning to ride a bike is a bloody business. 
When you fall—not if—the skin on your knees will break.
You will taste the salt of tears on your lips,
From the streams on your cheeks.
Your chest will hold the fear of another stumble,
And your ears will be ringing with the mantra, 
“Never again, Never again.”
But you get up again.
Wiping gravel from your palms,
Unashamed of amputated wheels you’ve outgrown,
Committed to whatever it takes.
Because while the pain of shedding blood
Can sometimes feel too much to bare,
The cost will be worth it
With the wind in your hair—
It’s a bloody business.
But it’s in the rising from the earth 
and starting again that you know 
you’re really living.

Find the whole text here.