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Does God care about my skinned knee?

May 26, 2022 By Genevieve Razim 1 Comment

What is your favorite day in the Church Year? Christmas? Easter? Pentecost? All Saints?
Does anyone ever answer with Ascension Day?

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, Ascension, Feast Days, Jesus, Philip

Overcoming Prejudice with God’s Love

February 4, 2022 By Jamie Osborne 1 Comment

To remember Cornelius is to celebrate courage persevering through prejudice and how God’s love can overcome our blindness.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, baptism, cloud of witnesses, Cornelius, love, St. Peter

Embracing Evangelism on the Feast of Saint Philip

October 11, 2021 By Eric Liles Leave a Comment

I am absolutely fascinated when people in the Bible are picked up and moved by the Holy Spirit.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Acts, Acts of the Apostles, baptism, Bible Study, evangelism, Philip

Ascension Day Reminds the Church Who We Are

May 21, 2020 By Emily Watkins Leave a Comment

Here, forty days after experiencing the impossible, grappling with the fact that Jesus had risen from the dead, the disciples are again standing in awe. 

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, Ascension, cake, Feast Days, Luke

A Saint for the Back Row Dancer

February 24, 2020 By Kit Lonergan 2 Comments

Our faithfulness is not a reality show to be won, but rather transformation for God and glory to God alone.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, dancing, disciple, Faith, Feast Days, saints, St. Matthias

Cornelius the Centurion and Families Who Don’t Fit In

February 7, 2020 By Miguel Escobar 3 Comments

I will always remember the first time I met my husband’s brother.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, church, Cornelius, Family, inclusion, Jesus, St. Peter

Philip: the Patron Saint of the Interrupted

October 11, 2019 By Maria Kane 1 Comment

While in college, one of the best parts about my summertime subway commute to work was the 50 minutes of uninterrupted reading it afforded me every day. To stave off any potential conversations, I always boarded the train with my book in hand, head down.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, baptism, Feast Days, Philip, reading, strangers

Miracles in Community: From Saint John’s Church to Joppa

October 25, 2018 By Sara Irwin 1 Comment

There is a quilting group at my church that has been meeting every week for almost 60 years, working off of donations from cleaned out linen […]

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, community, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, quilt, tabitha, women

As we prepare to move, St. Barnabas reminds us to cherish friends.

June 12, 2017 By Allison Sandlin Liles 3 Comments

Our family is getting ready to move. It’s turns out this is a perfect time to honor St. Barnabas.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, friendship, moving, New Testament, St. Barnabas, St. Paul

Jesus could have destroyed Saul. Instead, he claimed him.

January 25, 2017 By Marcus Halley 5 Comments

Saul breathed murder and violence against the church. What’s a Good Shepherd to do?

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, Bible, Conversion of St. Paul, Romans, St. Paul

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