Month: February 2022
Love your enemies
Read More: Love your enemies7th Sunday after the Epiphany, 20 February 2022 Last Sunday we heard the Blessings and Woes, also called the Beatitudes in Matthew’s Gospel. People found them shocking, as Jesus was introducing a new kind of discipleship. His words todayare a continuation; they were very unsettling to His listeners and followers, and probably are to us. Jesus raised the bar: He said it’s…
Transforming love
Read More: Transforming love4th Sunday after the Epiphany, 30 January 2022 I Corinthians 13:1-8 If Christianity were only a matter of going to church on Sunday, it would be an easy religion; but it’s a journey and pilgrimage of following Jesus, so that our lives may be transformed, and when we see Him we will be like Him. In…
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Everything Will Live Where the River Goes
The Charismatic Episcopal Church is in a season of recovering who we always were. Believing in the active presence of the gifts, and seeing them practiced as normal Christianity, is foundational to our understanding of the Holy Spirit and the Christian life. This year’s Three Streams Ignited conference put that conviction on display for three…
Reflections from Kenya: What Africa Does to You!
It had been more than two decades since I last traveled toKenya, following the late Archbishop Benson Thomas Otieno’sleadership in bringing many churches into the ICCEC. On thatearlier trip, I had the privilege of taking part in theconsecration of three Kenyan bishops. This time, my wife and I joined a team spending two weeksministering across…
The Same as Before, Only More
From Three Streams United Substack: From February through July, I was in Madrid for the selection of our new Patriarch, in Paris for his installation, at 3SI: The River, and finally in San Clemente for the Patriarch’s Council. I have borrowed a phrase from Bishop Jason Epps to describe each of them, because I have…
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