Posts by Steve Grenzow (Page 42)
Presiding Bishop to be present for 5th Anniversary Gathering in 2014
In February 2014, the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth will celebrate the 5th anniversary of its renewal. Presiding Bishop Schori will be there.
Bishop High’s Easter Message
The Rt. Rev. Rayford B. High Jr., provisional bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, gives his Easter message.
Lenten Reflection: Emptiness
Love the emptiness. If you do not have space in your soul – if you keep yourself filled on food or constant activity or ever-new ideas– your desire will be blunted or even perverted. We have been created with the gift of desire, to long for, to anticipate. – Br. Curtis Almquist Society of Saint John the Evangelist To Read More, Click Here Video not displaying? Click here to view: http://youtu.be/g4cwj-BZgS0 Question for Reflection: Where might life be waiting to…
Lenten Reflection: Suffering
It was not because Jesus was oblivious to pain that enabled him to undergo such cruelty. It was because he knew the depth of human grief and loss and despair. And he knew that, because he loved. – Br. James Koester Society of Saint John the Evangelist To Read More, Click Here Video not displaying? Click here to view: http://youtu.be/yekhlcwk4S4 Question for Reflection: Will you ask God to transform your suffering into greater love? Comments: We welcome your comments on…
Lenten Reflection: Revelation
Take up these symbols of the new life: towel and basin and water. Let them be for you a sign of your love for him and your gratitude for all that he has done for you. Let them be for you a pledge of your commitment to serve – not out of duty, but out of love; not to obtain a reward, but to imitate the One who freely and willingly laid down his life for you. Let them be…
Executive Council Meeting Minutes – January 26, 2013
The Executive Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth met on January 26, 2013.
Here is the full text of meeting minutes as approved March 16, 2013.
Executive Council meeting highlights, March 2013
The Executive Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth voted to adopt a revised Vision/Mission Statement and make adjustments to the diocesan budget at their meeting on Saturday, March 16, 2013, in the Lee Conference Center on the courthouse square in Hamilton.
ECW supports CASA, asks for your help
Last fall the Board of Episcopal Church Women selected the Court Appointed Special Advocates program (CASA) as the main charity for our organization. CASA volunteers investigate a child’s situation in foster care, monitor their home and school life while in the child welfare system, and, ultimately, recommend to the courts which placement is best for a child to call a “forever home.” They serve as advocates, friends, and protectors.
Lenten Reflection: Paradox
There is something about our suffering in life – what we would not have chosen but cannot avoid – when we say “yes” to God, when we show ourselves ready to bear our suffering before God, that opens the door for transformation, for consecration. There is something about facing the dark night that allows us to see the dawning of joy. – Br. Curtis Almquist Society of Saint John the Evangelist To Read More, Click Here Video not displaying? Click…
St. Luke’s Stephenville Adds ELCA Worship Service
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Stephenville is entering into a partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). A Sunday evening service geared towards college students done according to Evangelical Lutheran worship will be added to schedule of services at St. Luke’s. There is no ELCA congregation less than 45 minutes in any direction of Stephenville, and The Episcopal Church and ELCA are in full communion with each other. Common Grace, a contemporary worship service to which all are…
ECF Web Conferences Spring 2013
The Episcopal Church Foundation is offering a number of web-based educational events for clergy and lay leader throughout the church. As part of the Episcopal Church Foundation’s (ECF) on-going efforts to assist congregations in developing their leadership and financial resources, we are offering a wide range of web conferences for clergy and lay parish leaders this spring. There is no cost to participate in most of the web conferences (there is a nominal fee of $10 to participate in select web…
Lenten Reflection: Experience
We lift our hearts to God in whatever state they are in. If our hearts are happy, we lift them to the Lord. If our hearts are broken or heavy with grief, we lift them to the Lord. If our hearts are anxious or afraid, we lift them to the Lord. We “come as we are” to this place. – Br. Mark Brown Society of Saint John the Evangelist To Read More, Click Here Video not displaying? Click here to…
Lenten Reflection: Compassion
During this week, these last days of our Lord’s life, we try to enter imaginatively into the story of Christ’s passion, to try, each one of us, to feel the weight of the cross, to understand a little of the immensity of God’s sacrifice for us, and the immensity of God’s love for us. – Br. Geoffrey Tristram Society of Saint John the Evangelist To Read More, Click Here Video not displaying? Click here to view: http://youtu.be/rZYe9JkKo7o Question for Reflection:…
Lenten Reflection: Vulnerability
What is it that makes you vulnerable? In our lifetimes, we don’t lose our spiritual vulnerability. We wouldn’t want to lose it. How we come to know God, how God breaks through to us, is probably through something that is broken in our lives. – Br. Curtis Almquist Society of Saint John the Evangelist To Read More, Click Here Video not displaying? Click here to view: http://youtu.be/0IICHyeFetM Question for Reflection: How will you share your vulnerability with Jesus today? Comments:…
Lenten Reflection: Grace
Temptation becomes an instrument of God’s grace when it causes us to acknowledge our helplessness, when it prompts us to look for God’s help, when it puts us in places where we realize our need for a Savior. – Br. David Vryhof Society of Saint John the Evangelist To Read More, Click Here Video not displaying? Click here to view: http://youtu.be/3h4eIAvUC0M Question for Reflection: Can you invite God’s grace into the places of contradiction and darkness within you? Comments: We…
Lenten Reflection: Repentance
As Jesus said over and over again, if you sin and repent and try to live a new life, you will be saved. This is a manifestation of that same loving fatherhood of God repeated over and over throughout the Psalms and the writings of the Prophets, and throughout the whole of the New Testament. – Br. David Allen Society of Saint John the Evangelist To Read More, Click Here Video not displaying? Click here to view: http://youtu.be/WjJv3ZUh-1Q Question for…