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 […]
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An invitation to discuss Radical Welcome
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/
voices in the wilderness
Dec. 15, 2011 (by Pastor Markus): Voices in the Wilderness can comfort the afflicted or they can afflict the comfortable, or both. Isaiah sang “Comfort ye my people…” but John the Baptist cried “Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand.” When I listen for the voice of Jesus, I hear both. This morning […]
Posted by Vital Effect on December 2, 2011
https://www.trinity-lutheran.ab.ca/ministry-team/so-help-me-blog/2011/12/02/test/
