David Rust commenting on “Radical Welcome” by Stephanie Spellers – CHURCH PUBLISHING INC. Kindle Edition. I am proposing the following format to get discussion started on this blog. I will summarize in a few sentences a section of the book “Radical Welcome” and then add a few questions or comments of my own. Then, after […]
“Living with arms wide open”
Posted by Vital Effect on July 15, 2013
https://www.trinity-lutheran.ab.ca/ministry-team/so-help-me-blog/2013/07/15/living-with-arms-wide-open/
“The Dream of God”
David Rust commenting on “Radical Welcome” by Stephanie Spellers – CHURCH PUBLISHING INC. Kindle Edition. I am proposing the following format to get discussion started on this blog. I will summarize in a few sentences a section of the book “Radical Welcome” and then add a few questions or comments of my own. Then, after […]
Posted by Vital Effect on July 4, 2013
https://www.trinity-lutheran.ab.ca/ministry-team/so-help-me-blog/2013/07/04/the-dream-of-god/
“Defining Radical Welcome”
“Def
Posted by Vital Effect on July 4, 2013
https://www.trinity-lutheran.ab.ca/ministry-team/so-help-me-blog/2013/07/04/defining-radical-welcome/
“Introduction”
David Rust commenting on “Radical Welcome” by Stephanie Spellers – CHURCH PUBLISHING INC. Kindle Edition. I am proposing the following format to get discussion started on this blog. I will summarize in a few sentences a section of the book “Radical Welcome” and then add a few questions or comments of my own. Then, after […]
Posted by Vital Effect on May 17, 2013
https://www.trinity-lutheran.ab.ca/ministry-team/so-help-me-blog/2013/05/17/introduction/
“Foreword”
David Rust commenting on “Radical Welcome” by Stephanie Spellers – CHURCH PUBLISHING INC. Kindle Edition. I am proposing the following format to get discussion started on this blog. I will summarize in a few sentences a section of the book “Radical Welcome” and then add a few questions or comments of my own. Then, after […]
Posted by Vital Effect on May 10, 2013
https://www.trinity-lutheran.ab.ca/ministry-team/so-help-me-blog/2013/05/10/foreword/
An invitation to discuss Radical Welcome
From David R.: I am posting this blog as an invitation to early discussion. I have just started reading the book Radical Welcome: Embracing God, The Other, and the Spirit of Transformation by Stephanie Spellers. This is the book Trinity Lutheran church council is using as a “jumping off” point to encourage new growth in […]
Posted by Vital Effect on April 24, 2013
https://www.trinity-lutheran.ab.ca/ministry-team/so-help-me-blog/2013/04/24/an-invitation-to-discuss-radical-welcome/
What’s so radical about welcoming people to church?
You may have read that Church Council has recently started to study a book by Stephanie Spellers, a former religion journalist and member of the Lutheran Church, and current priest in the American equivalent of the Anglican church. It is called RADICAL WELCOME – Embracing God, The Other, and the Spirit of Transformation. For over […]
Posted by Vital Effect on April 23, 2013
https://www.trinity-lutheran.ab.ca/ministry-team/so-help-me-blog/2013/04/23/whats-so-radical-about-welcoming-people-to-church/
a garden for all
I am excited that on April 17, Trinity’s church council approved a garden proposal for the church grounds and the park across the street. This is something a few people (including myself) have been dreaming about for a while, and it is becoming a reality now: “As we are planning some renovations to the inside […]
Posted by Vital Effect on April 23, 2012
https://www.trinity-lutheran.ab.ca/ministry-team/so-help-me-blog/2012/04/23/a-garden-for-all/
eggs & chickens
Easter is approaching, and people are buying eggs: Chocolate, jellybean, and “real”. In our society, eggs go with Easter like Santa with Christmas. I am part of this: I have fond childhood memories of searching for Easter eggs in the garden – what a thrill! And also of colouring eggs each year with my mom […]
Posted by Vital Effect on April 2, 2012
https://www.trinity-lutheran.ab.ca/ministry-team/so-help-me-blog/2012/04/02/eggs-chickens/
snow!
Finally snow! I have been yearning for a thick blanket of white all winter. And when I looked at the brown grass, the bare shrubs and trees, and later the cracks in the ground, I thought, how much must the plants yearn for a cover that protects them from the dry wind, and that turns […]
Posted by Vital Effect on February 28, 2012
https://www.trinity-lutheran.ab.ca/ministry-team/so-help-me-blog/2012/02/28/snow/
