12/08/11 "...no matter which road you choose, they all end up here!"

“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord,

make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”

~Isaiah 40:3~

10/31/11 “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD”

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" He said to him, `You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,...

10/04/11 “There but for the Grace of God go I.”

One of my summer reads was Ron Chernow’s biography of George Washington, entitled Washington: A Life. In his weighty 904-page opus (luckily I was using my Kindle so my hands wouldn’t tire), Chernow provides a fair and honest portrayal of our First President. I appreciated learning about the‘flesh an...

09/09/11 Where did the summer go?

Where did the summer go? I have to say, the speed with which summer passes has only been a recent experience for me. As a kid I can remember how long it seemed to take for time to pass.

04/30/11 A Sermon Preached by The Rev. Joshua D. Walters on Easter Sunday, May 24, 2011

The other day I was talking on the phone with a clergy colleague of mine. I mentioned how, at the time, I didn’t have the foggiest idea of what I wanted to preach about this morning, for my

Easter morning sermon. This friend of mine was telling me that only a day earlier he had a similar conversati...

04/06/11 The Birth of Jesus ?

As I look out my window, I am watching the students slush their way through what I hope is the last snowfall of our spring (granted the vernal equinox was only four days ago)! For most of us this round of snow came as a great surprise, especially when we consider that we were in the mid-60s only a w...

03/03/11 Lent

This year Easter Sunday is on April 24th, which means that Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent doesn’t occur until March 9th. Frankly put, it has been a long, hard winter, but that is beginning to change (I’m writing this letter on the day after Valentine’s Day).

01/26/11 The Rector’s Annual Address - The Rev. Joshua D. Walters

Let us pray:Grant, O Lord, that your Holy Spirit may preside over us now in all our concerns and deliberations for the welfare

of this parish. We thank you for all the blessings of the past year, for those who have been joined to us and to the

Church Universal

12/30/10 God will be revealed in a multitude of ways

Happy New Year and a continued Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones!

11/26/10 ADVENT 2010

I must first thank you for the generous and expansive participation in our ‘Consecration Sunday’ at the ingathering of our pledge cards. To date, we have received pledges of over $120,000; we are well on our way toward our annual goal of this year’s giving campaign. I am profoundly encouraged by you...