One of the most powerful moments at the Diocese of the Restoration gathering that followed the conclusion of the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches’ 30th Anniversary Convocation was receiving my wife’s first blessing following her ordination as a presbyter. God is good.
Special thanks to Fr. Michael Livingston for capturing the moment.
This past Sunday, September 14, 2025, Myra guest preached at DreamHouse Church (Newport News, VA) for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (RCL: Year C).
Linked below is the video of the service, it’s queued to start just before the sermon. Feel free to scroll back and watch the entire service. read more…
This coming October in Kansas, Lord willing, Myra will take the next step on her journey in Holy Orders, as our bishop, Quintin Moore, ordains her a presbyter (i.e., priest) in Christ’s one holy catholic and apostolic Church through the laying on of hands. read more…
On Sunday, August 10, 2025, I once again had the privilege of guest preaching at DreamHouse Church (Newport News, VA) for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (RCL: Year C). The pastor, Scott Crowder, is on sabbatical so they’re having a variety of guest preachers. I truly love this church.
Linked below is the video of the service, it’s queued to start just before the sermon. Feel free to scroll back and watch the entire service. read more…
This past Sunday, May 25, 2025, Myra guest preached at DreamHouse Church (Newport News, VA) for the Sixth Sunday of Easter (RCL: Year C).
Linked below is the video of the service, it’s queued to start just before the sermon. Feel free to scroll back and watch the entire service. read more…
This past Sunday, March 16, 2025, I had the privilege of guest preaching at DreamHouse Church (Newport News, VA) for the Second Sunday in Lent (RCL: Year C). They’re a beautiful congregation, intentionally blending charismatic and liturgical/sacramental practices. Their pastor, Scott Crowder, is a great guy and someone I’m blessed to know and call a friend.
Linked below is the video of the service, it’s queued to start just before the sermon. Feel free to scroll back and watch the entire service. read more…
For the Christian, our hope is not in the secular—albeit with a pseudo-Christian veneer—political system of this country. Presidents, whether Democrat or Republican, will always fail us to one degree or another. None are kings or emperors…just men (and one day women) who happen to have made it to the height of political power.
Regardless, we must not bow to any Caesars. Give them what is theirs, but nothing more because the rest isn’t ours to give away as it’s already spoken for by Christ.
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Measuring our significance, our value, and even our purpose through being needed/wanted by others is as much a genuine struggle as it is a misstep. Truth be told that pursuit is not only fleeting, but it ultimately leads to despair.
The pursuit we should strive, by the power of the Spirit, is to live into the intentional, even irrational, choice to embrace our belovedness in Christ. That decision will make it easier to reorient our sense of value and purpose while thriving in the community of faith. read more…
