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).

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...

10/28/10 Doing the Right Thing

“We celebrate the memorial of our redemption, O Father, in this sacrifice of

praise and thanksgiving. Recalling [Our Lord Jesus Christ’s] death, resurrection,

and ascension, we offer you these gifts.”

–Book of Common Prayer 1979, page 363.