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I am sorry I haven’t posted anything from Celebration of Discipline in the last few weeks. I guess Holy Week threw me off more than I realized.I want to finish the book and I want to keep talking about it. I am going to read 2 chapters a week until it is completed. I will post again next week.Peter+

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Hi Everyone,A reminder that there is no reading assignment for Holy Week. See you in the blogosphere next week.Peter+

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Okay, I have been wrestling with the discipline of study. Is it really a classical discipline. Here are some questions I have rolling in mind.How did pre-literate Christians practice this discipline? How was this discipline practiced before the wide proliferation of books? Could it have been practiced before the wide proliferation of books?Does this call into question its status a classical

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The Discipline of StudyIn chapter five Foster examines the discipline of study. He lifts up study as an important and essential discipline.Foster defines study as, "a specific kind experience in which through careful observation of objective structures we cause thought processes to move in a certain way." The outcome of this process is that habits of thought are ingrained in our minds.Foster

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The Discipline of FastingIn chapter four Foster takes up the topic of fasting. A topic that emerges in the pages of the Bible but one that is not always surfaced in contemporary church life.Foster argues that while fasting is not a biblical command in the strict sense of the word, it seems to be an assumption of scripture that God's people fast. It is also true that Christians throughout the

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Hi Schola,Here are some discussion questions for chapter three.1. On page 30 Foster writes, "All who have walked with God have viewed prayer as the main business of their lives."Do you view prayer as the main business of your life? Why or why not?2. On page 35 Foster writes. "Meditation is the necessary prelude to intercession."What does Foster mean by this? Do you agree with him?3. On page

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Okay, it's my turn to write the chapter summary so here it goes . . . .Chapter three focuses on the spiritual discipline of prayer. Foster starts this chapter defining prayer and lists various Biblical characters and religious figures who "viewed prayer as the main business of their lives." On page 36, Foster begins the section "Learning to Pray" by explaining how prayer is a learning process

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I read chapter 2 for the first time about 20 years ago. It has been that long since I have read it. It was helpful and challenging to be reminded of the meditation and the practices that go with it. I'm looking forward to doing some wof what Foster suggests in the next few days.Here are some discussion questions:1. On page 22 Foster writes, " the inner world of meditation is most easily

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Here begins some discussion questions for Chapter 2. More later.-------------------------------------------------------According to Foster, what is meditation?Early in chapter 2 Foster argues that Christian meditation and Eastern meditation are different. How are they different? Why is that important to Foster?

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MeditationI will have some specific discussion questions posted by Wednesday afternoon. At this point, I am wondering if anyone has any initial thoughts on chapter 2.Is anyone interested in posting next week about chapter 3? I will pass on the username and password for the blog to whoever is interested.Peter+

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The Spiritual Disciplines: Door To LiberationIn this chapter Foster sets the agenda for the book and the use of the disciplines. His overarching point is that spiritual growth is a gift of grace while. But this does not mean we are passive in the process. We are called to cooperate with God by using the disciplines.Here are some questions to get our discussion started. If you have other

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Here is the suggested syllubus for Celebration of Discipline. I don't mind putting all the chapter summary posts up, but it might be nice to trade around that duty within the class. Let me know if that is something you want to do and then I will email the login information to everyone in the group.Peter+------------------------------------------------------Week of …3/5 1 – The Spiritual

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Celebration of Discipline is 13 chapters long. To finish the book during lent, we will need to do at least 2 chapters per week. In my mind that raises a question. The book is best read, I think, with plenty of time to ruminate on the issues addressed therein. Also, it seems to me it would be good to actually practice each of the disciplines discussed in the book.What think ye -- 2 plus

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Saint Pat's lenten study is Celebration of Discipline (CD) by Richard Foster. CD is a an overview of the classical spiritual disciplines and how they work in a Christian's life.The book is almost 30 years old. It has become a classic in its own right.Amazon offers this summary:When Richard Foster began writing Celebration of Discipline more than 20 years ago, an older writer gave him a bit of

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A good article by my friend and colleague in North Carolina, Ben Sharpe. Ben is the Rector of Church of the Messiah in Durham, NC.Overcoming Consumer Christianityby Ben SharpeEach one of us has been infected by a virulent contagion that has crippled our ability to see the world as it truly is. This contagion effects every person in the Western World and has begun to spread to developing

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Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

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My friend Ben Sharpe, an Anglican Priest in Durham, NC (Church of the Messiah) wrote the following thought provoking article. Note that he penned while he was a United Methodist Clergyman.----------------------------------------Authentic Seeker Sensitive Worshipby Ben Sharpe Several years ago, on Christmas Eve, my family and I accepted the invitation of a friend to worship at St. Michael the

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Sunday we continued our series entitled 7 Character Traits of a Disciple. Sunday's topic was Patience.PatiencePatience is really hard for many of us.Patience is a central character quality in the life of a disciple.In looking at patience we examined two points:1. Patient people look like GodExodus 34:1-7God's name -- slow to anger is part of his nameSlow to anger good definition of patienceWe

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On Sunday we returned to our series: 7 Character Traits of a Disciple. The topic Sunday was Chastity. Below are the central ideas of the sermon.ChastityChastity is a word that can have negative connotations. I want to make it a positive word again. Based on 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8, chastity can be defined as God pleasing or God centered sexuality. So what does God pleasing sexuality look like?

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Here are thoughts from Sunday's sermon. I am looking forward to the comments.-------------------------SELF-CONTROLFirst we looked at gluttony as the sin that counters the character trait of self-control. -Gluttony is about food-But we may think of it as intemperance or lack of moderation -Lack of self-control is allowing the good things of this life to control me.-Lack of self-control is

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My outline from Sunday's sermon on Contentment follows. I am looking forward to the comments.-----------------------------DEAD POET’S SOCIETY-REMINDED US OF THE FILM-THE SOCIETY WAS FORMED TO "SUCK THE MARROW OUT OF LIFE"-BUT THE MARROW THAT NOURISHES THE SOUL IS NOT FOUND IN THIS LIFE. THE POINT-CONTENTMENT HAPPENS WHEN I GO TO THE RIGHT SOURCE TO FIND THE MARROW THAT NOURISHES THE SOUL.TWO

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Last Sunday's sermon was the first in a seven part series entitled "7 Character Traits of a Disciple." During the series we will look at the seven character traits that stand in contrast to the 7 Deadly Sins. Here are the topics:Humility vs. Pride Contentment vs. EnvySelf-Control vs. GluttonyChastity vs. Lust Patience vs. Anger Generosity vs. Greed Diligence vs. Sloth The series is meant to

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I'm sorry that that the Community Blog has been out of commission for the last month. This week we are back online. I am posting the handout that Lester Ruth handed out during his Sunday sermon. Let's get the discussion going.--------------------Pondering the Commitments in BaptismPonder the questions asked of candidates in baptism and the desired responses in the baptism service. Included

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Text: Philippians 4:10-23"How To Be a God-Centered Giver"Sunday's sermon drew lessons from Paul's interaction with the Philippians regarding their gift to him. Paul wanted to be sure that the gift did not de-generate into a way of defining his relationship with the Philippians. He did this by making the gift God-Centered rather than human centered. He set forth two key ideas:1. Giving is an

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TEXT: Philippians 4:1-3Sunday's sermon began by examining how Paul wants the Philippians to stand firm together for the progress of the gospel.He first applies this idea in his exhortation to Euodia and Syntyche to get along and be of the same mind. We drew three ideas out of the two verse story of Euodia and Syntyche.1. NAME -- Christian community happens when we know each other's names. --

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By Auburn Faber TraycikThe Christian Challenge (Washington, DC)July 26, 2005IN ANOTHER REMARKABLE CHAPTER in Anglican realignment, a "Covenant of Understanding" has been signed calling for a formal alliance for mission and ministry in North and South America and the Caribbean.The pan-American fellowship is envisioned as a mechanism to link those of similar theological perspective and could

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"But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ."Sunday we examined the idea of living as citizens of heaven. We looked at two ideas:1. Citizens of Heaven live the way of the cross2. Citizens of Heaven live now in light of eternity -- live the here and the now in light of the there and the then.Here are some questions:1. What are

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Christianity Vanquished in Britain?Ed VitaglianoAgape PressWhen Lord Bromley Betchworth returned to the United Kingdom (U.K.) after living in the U.S. for 12 years, he returned to a culture that had dramatically changed."I was shocked at how moral values had changed in such a short time and how church attendance in mainstream denominations was in free fall," he said. "Four out of five churches

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TEXT: Philippians 3:1-14"Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ"Anything that blocks us from knowing Christ -- or from being fully

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This is a good thing!Peter+-----------------------------------------Anglican Pan American Conference Affirms Common MinistryBiblically Orthodox Anglicans from the Americas and Caribbean meet to promote their common ministry in the Western HemisphereNassau, Bahamas--(July 10, 2005)--The Pan American Conference of orthodox Communion-committed Anglicans met in Nassau, Bahamas, from July 6-8 under

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Text: Philippians 2:19-30In this text Paul commends Timothy and Epaphroditus to the Philippians. The key idea I brought out is that they were men who put the interests of Christ before there own interests. Timothy did this by being concerned for -- literally, carrying the weight of -- the Philippian community. Epaphroditus did it by risking his life for the kingdom of God. I argued that

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Greetings in the name of OUR Lord Jesus Christ, God is so very good to US, His children, this a universal statement,we are not the only "blessed" in the states, this is one of the many lessons that I thought I already knew…but I am learning in a whole new way here. I praise the Lord for all the lessons He has taught. But like any good student, some times our lessons are learned by default.

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The readings for this Sunday:Isaiah 55:1-5Psalm 65:1, 9-14Philippians 2:19-25 (sermon text)Matthew 13:1-9

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Text: Philippians 2:12-14We looked at two main ideas. 1. 2:14-18: Paul was banking on the mission of God to move forward through the common life of the Philippian church. The themes that have already surfaced converge in this passage. A harmonious Christian community that is like a light shininig in the darkness. Community for the good of the world.2. 2:12-13: This is what God is working

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To the servants of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, Greetings.The trip to Cape KanyaKumari was amazing, it was a four hour drive down and a six hour train ride back. In the traveling alone the Lord did great things. On the way to the cape we stopped by a small village where there was an orphange, supported by our ministry. We picked up an elder nun to take her to another orphange around 100

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From Luke Syfert -- our summer missionary to India:Greetings in the name of Jesus ChristThe Lord is good all the time. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.I will be traevling tomorrow to Cape KenyaKumari, this is where the Tsunami caused the most damage in India. They still do not have a body count there and are still searching. The orphange there I'm sure is full, this will be my

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Here some questions I have been pondering: If we are called to "empty ourselves" in our relationships within the Christian community, what kind of life patterns need to be in place in a local church so that we can get close enough to "empty ourselves"? What practices could we embrace that foster "emptying ourselves"? Do these need to be programmed, or are these things that each person should

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We are beginning a new practice this week. We will continue the reflection time we have after each sermon on Sunday on our community blog. I will post the central ideas of the sermon and then everyone is invited to add thoughts, comments, questions in the comment area. To make a comment, click comments below. Write your post -- be sure and include your name -- and post it. I think it will be

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I am blogging to recommend a new coffee that comes from the hills of Rwanda. It is "Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee(LTHC)." LTHC is grown in Rwanda and shipped to a small plant in Atlanta that is a minstry of an Anglican Church there. A pound costs $10. It is free trade, so the profits go back to Rwanda. The farms that grow the coffee are made up of both Hutus and Tutsis. A central aim of the

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MISSION COMES BEFORE THE CHURCHI am finally, after over a month, inspired to post again. My friend Alan Creech is posting on his blog about what it means to be a missional church (very good stuff -- check it out). I have been pondering this idea again. In the process I read a quote from Geoff Maddock of Communality -- a missional church in Lexington, KY. In an article about the emerging church

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GOOD FRIDAYWhen pondering the wondrous of love of God revealed on the cross, St. Augustine declared Felix Culpa -- O happy fault -- that our sin would move God to manifest such great love.On Good Friday we must not forget that our Lord went to the cross because that is what we deperately needed. Our perverse brokenness and the unfathomable love of God meet on the cross.This is Good Friday.

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TRIDUUMThe Triduum begins today! Soli Deo Gloria!Peter+

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GOOD FRIDAY FASTI am encouraging everyone at Saint Pat's to fast on Good Friday (actually Thursday supper until Friday supper). Some will do a total fast (no food, lots of water) and some will do a partial fast -- no meat, no sweets, simple and light eating. I pray it will be beneficial for all of us.Peter+

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SAINT PATTY'S DAY PARADEWell we did it. St Patrick's Anglican Church marched in the Lexington Saint Patrick's Day Parade. We put the "Acolyte Drill Team" on the street. Got a lot of laughs. It was fun. We were wet. We will do it again!! So...when is the Fourth of July Parade?Peter+

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LEXINGTON SAINT PATRICK'S DAY PARADE 2005Tomorrow a group of us from Saint Pat's will march in the Lexington Saint Patrick's Day Parade. My wife (Trudi) and Lester Ruth came up with the idea of forming an Acolyte Drill Team. That's right, an Acolyte Drill Team. A group of folks are doing routines to U2 music and Irish Folk Music using acolyte candle lighters rather than batons or rifles. It

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LENT AS A SEASON OF GRACE II I read a blogpost recently on how Thomas Cranmer -- the Archbishop of Canterbury who was at the center of the English Reformation -- appropriated the doctrine of jusification by faith for the English church. Where Luther found the doctrine to a balm of relief for his conscience stricken soul, Cranmer found the doctrine to be an engine for holiness. In justification,

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This week Asbury College is hosting the following event. The showing has been organized by Professor Keith Barker -- a St. Pattite. BROKEN BEAUTY A SHOWING BY BRUCE HERMAN On Thursday, February 4, 7:30 -8:45pm, at Kinlaw Library, Asbury College, Bruce Herman, artist and professor at Gordan College will present “Broken Beauty” -- a series of paintings depicting the beauty of the brokenness of

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LENT AS A SEASON OF GRACE I have been pondering Lenten 2005 of late. I have been thinking how easy it can be (at least for me) to think of this season of penitence as a season of scolding and nagging. Five weeks of nagging for holiness! Here is what I have been thinking. In my own life, transformation and repentance have come on the heels of a deeper vision of the love and grace of God.

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ADVENT IS HERE "Anticipa-a-tion: it's making me wait....." Yesterday was the first day of Advent. For the next 25 days the Church around the world will anticipate the coming of Christ. In one sense Advent is an act of remembrance as we seek to move back in time to the first advent of our Lord. In another sense Advent is an act of anticipation as we wait and prepare for our Lord's return. In

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This coming Sunday our worship gathering will be an Instructed Eucharist. Rather than have a sermon, I will do a running commentary through the whole liturgy to explain the significance of each aspect of the Liturgy. We had our first Fall Formation Seminar last Saturday. Dr. Sandra Richter, Assoc. Prof. of OT at Asbury Seminary and a St. Pattite led the sessions. We did the seminar in

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Last Sunday Sofia Myers and Jeana Clark were baptized. It was a great morning! I love baptisms because of the opportunity they afford to re-affirm my own baptism. I also love, especially when a baby is baptized, how the sign so powerfully captures the nature of God's free grace. Salvation is gift and it is initiated wholly by God. That is good news! Peter+

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I have been reflecting on the Great Commission lately -- Matthew 28:16-20 -- where Jesus leaves his marching orders for the church. My typical bent when I ponder the Great Commission is to think of all the people who are not yet disciples and need to find new life in Christ. That is not a bad thing to ponder, but lately I have been looking at the commission from another angle. I have been

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It has been months since I have posted to the church blog. Wow. I am sorry to have taken so long! I am wondering if anyone in the St. Pat's community would like to do a guest blogging session? You could write about anything on your heart or mind that would encourage our church. Let me know. Peter

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Thursday is the Feast of the Ascension. On that day we celebrate the ascension of our Lord and his exaltation at the right hand of the Father as our King and High Priest. For years I never gave much thought to the ascension, but in the last few years I have been helped to see how important that event was. Because of Christ's ascension we can confidently access the Father (Heb 4:16). This last

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On Sunday May 9 we received an offering for the constructing of a seminary for the Anglican Church of Rwanda. For the last ten years that church (along with other Christian communities) has been working hard at recovery and restoration in the aftermath of the 1994 massacres. Right now they do not have a seminary. They are in dire need of resources for training the leadership they currently

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Lancelot Andrewes was a Bishop in the Church of England during the reign of King James. He is celebrated for his great preaching and his ability to live in the thick of daily ministry and still translate much of the Old Testament for the Authoriozed Version (KJV) of the Bible. Here is a thoughtful Good Friday reflection from his pen. It is well known that Christ and His cross were never parted

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Tomorrow the Triduum or Three Great Days begin; one long worship service from Thursday through Sunday. We will go to the upper room on Thursday, go to golgotha on Friday, wait on Saturday and go to the empty tomb on Sunday. A few weeks back I invited us to consider fasting on Good Friday. I hope everyone is still thinking about that. One can make a total or a partial fast. A total fast would

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Holy Week 2004 started well. It was cold for our Liturgy of the Palms so our procession was short. We read the passion narrative from Luke's gospel in reader's theatre style. All in all things went well, although I am sure there will be some tweaking for next year's service. If you have never made it to all of the Holy Week services before I encourage you to do so this year. It makes for a

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This week is the 10th anniversary of the Rwanda massacres. The Christians in Rwanda and especially the leadership of the Anglican Church have been deeply involved in the work of restoration subsequent to the violence. A year ago I heard +John Ruchyhana - a retired Bishop from Rwanda - speak of some young relatives leaving his home during the massacres. He found out later that when they arrived

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Tomorrow is the feast day of Saint Patrick. For many, if not all of us, this is a day for wearing green, celebrating our Irishness (real or assumed) and fun and frivolity. I am all for Irishness and fun and frivolity, :) but there is another reason for this day: to remember the life of one of the great missionaries of the Church. As our church information packet says, St. Patrick was the

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Jonathan Moore and Megan Rollins were married Saturday. March 6. It was a wonderful wedding. The service was very small -- family and a few friends. They plan to host a party on July 3 -- everyone will be invited. Should be a great time!! Pray for Winston Walsh and the Walsh family. Winston will be baptized on Easter Sunday. When our tradition is practiced with integrity, parents, family

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Here is a fascinating quotation from The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community and Small Groupsby Joe Myers. Myers is a christian thinker who directs an organization called The Langauge of Belonging. I wish for a front porch. I am not alone. In our time people have a hunger for a significant "median space." This may arise from the recent history of minimizing the importance of these

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This coming Sunday is the Last Sunday after the Epiphany. Many churches commemerate the Transfiguration of Christ on this Sunday. We will be looking at the story as recorded in Luke 9. The next phase in our calendar is Lent. This begins Wednesday February 25. Lent is 40 days of penitence patterned after the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness. Lent is a time to renew and refocus ones

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The comment feature of our blog has been repaired. Give it a try! I am really pleased with how our Worship Gatherings are going at the High Street House. I can't say enough about the generosity of Communality for letting us share their space. I am posting a poem sent to me by Ryan Pettit. It is by Stephan Crane. As far as we know, Crane was not a believing Christian, but his poem,

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For some reason our Shout Out is not working. Ryan P. wrote up this response. Good thoughts. I'm from a small town that probably is the same or smaller than Wilmore. (We don't even have stoplights. :) Everyone in the town is at about the same economic level as far as I know. I only know one family that is on welfare (though I'm sure there are others), and the most we do for them is to give them

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In preparing for this weeks sermon, I have been struck by Jesus' call to "preach the gospel to the poor" (Luke 4). The word for poor connotes the poorest of the poor or the destitute. I am reminded again that our mission must go to the neediest and most marginal folks. This isn't because God ignores others. He wants to demonstrate that his love is universal. If he only went to the strong and

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Saint Patrick's is now meeting in Lexington. Communality, a missional community rooted in urban Lexington, has graciously invited us to worship in their meeting space at the High Street House. Thanks Communality!! The High Street House is at 112 W. High Street. We begin our worship at 10AM with refreshments afterward. Pax, Peter

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Why We Worship the Way We Do Part Two: Communion There are many individual pieces of the liturgy. But the basic structure is Word and Table. We hear God’s Word read and preached and fellowship with him at his table. Since the Word part of our worship is familiar to all of us (all Christian traditions practice this), I wanted to jump right in and examine Communion. In this short space we

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At Saint Patrick’s we worship in a way that is familiar to some and strange to others. Over the next weeks I plan to write short posts that explain what we do during Sunday worship. Hope everyone finds it helpful! -------------------------- Why We Worship the Way We Do Part One: Liturgy You might have noticed that we use the word liturgy to describe our gathering. Where does this word come

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This coming Sunday is the beginning of the Advent season. Advent is the first season in the Christian calendar. The Christian year is a means Christian's have developed by which we may sanctify time and make the calendar a means of spiritual formation. Advent is a season of preparation. It is sometimes called a mini Lent. It comes before Christmas and serves as a way of anticipating the

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The "how to be a serving community" discussion is going well. Let's keep it going if we can. Peter+

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A few weeks ago St. Pat's had a teaching/discussion about being a serving community. We shared some initial thoughts about how to do that. Let's have an online chat/brainstorm session about this question: What are some specific ways we can be a community that serves our neighbors, city, region, world? Share your ideas by posting in the Shout Out below (just click it and you will know what

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Missional Community, Part 3 . . . Part of the genius of the Wesleyan missional movement in 18th century England was the manner in which it gave concrete targets for people to aim for as they grew in discipleship. What follows are the marks of a missionary disciple. The goal of these marks is not to say all that can be said about discipleship. Instead, they are designed to give the key elements

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Missional Community, Pt. 2 Our community is named for Saint Patrick. The reason is that we want to look to him and the story of the mission to the Irish and other Celts as a guide and inspiration to our ministry. There are are many qualities of the Celtic mission, but five emerge that shape us. Missional The Celtic Church was missional. It saw itself as existing in a missionary context.

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Saint Pat's had its first Holy Communion on Sunday morning. It was great to share the body and blood of our Lord with this emerging community. Sunday's message was about evangelism. My goal was to begin the process of "cleaning up" the word evangelism. I mentioned three things a community needs to grow into to become a people God uses to draw others to faith: we need to have God's heart for

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I posted the following on my personal blog. I wanted to share it with our community too: Last night I was made a deacon. A group of approximately 50 gathered at Estes Chapel on the Campus of Asbury Theological Seminary to witness the public declaration of my vows of fidelity to the scriptures and the catholic faith and my vow of obedience to my Bishop. It was a joyous and solemn occasion.

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I'm excited about meeting this Sunday. We will spend time reviewing the story of Saint Patrick and the Celtic mission as a backdrop to our vision and mission. For the following four weeks we will wrap up our series on what it means to be a missional community. In these next weeks we will look at the different dimensions of what it means to be on mission. I hope everyone will find these times

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Saint Patrick's mission is to be a missional community in the Anglican Tradition. Has a nice ring to it, but what does it actually mean to be a missional community? Good question. Over the next days and weeks I will putting up some posts that help explain what this notion of missional community is. Today's post is necessarily a bit general so I can lay some groundwork. In the next days and

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Saint Patrick's is praying about some sort of minstry partnership with the Church in Rwanda. Right now were are exploring what this might look like and have no firm idea of what we would do yet. One thing we have learned is that many orphaned children live in Rwanda as a result of the massacre in 1994. We are wondering if God might have a role for us in serving them. Let's keep praying about

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Wow - it has been too long since a post has been up here. Sorry. This Sunday Saint Patrick's will meet again at The Matthews' house (112 Asbury Drive, Wilmore, KY). We will examine Ephesians 3:14-18 and look at how a community needs take hold of the truth that it is rooted and grounded in God's love if it is to be a thriving community. This idea will balance last weeks look at discipleship

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Saint Patrick's gathered for worship again last Sunday. Our teaching topic was - A Missional Community is a Relational Community. Thanks to Kimberly Wade for the amazing breakfast - a sort of mini pie with egg, bacon, cheese and cream cheese - mmm, mmm, good! Our first Formation Seminar is this Saturday. It is entitled "What Is Anglicanism?" We will look at what it means to be a sacramental

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We gathered Sunday morning for worship again. Thanks to Carmen R. and Bethany B. for the great B-fast! On Oct. 11 we are planning our first Formation Seminar. The Topic will be "What Is Anglicanism?" We will look at what it means to be a sacramental Christian rooted in the Ancient Church and how Anglicanism is an expression of this way of following Christ. Time: 9:00am - Noon Schedule:

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Saint Pats has a blurb on the Good News page of the Anglican Mission website. Go to the sight and click Good News to check it out. Pax, Peter

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It was great to be with everyone at this Sunday's worship gathering! Be sure and pray for Andy Campbell and Audrey Wagner - they travel this week. This coming Sunday the teaching is "On Mission With God...a missional commuinity is a Kingdom community." We will take a look at the idea of the Kingdom of God and how that shapes the life of a church. Pray for me as I study this week. Pax, Peter

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Kyle Schroeder and I (Peter) are attending a Renovare Conference in Louisville tonight and tomorrow. The conference is about spiritual formation and how that ties into the Kingdom of God. Please pray that it will be helpful for us and for Saint Pats. Pax, Peter

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I just read The Illumined Heart by Frederica Mathewes-Green. As the subtitle states it is a short (102 small pages) outline of the ancient Christian path of transformation. She gives a very accessable presentation of how the patristic church (say first 5 - 7 centuries) understood spiritual formation. Mathewes - Green is the wife of a former Episcopal turned Orthodox priest. She is chatty,

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John 10:37,38 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father. I have been thinking about this passage. I am wondering what the "works of the Father" are, and how this focus in Jesus life and ministry freed from a lot of

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Saint Patrick's Church held its first worship gathering today (September 7, 2003). We had an informal service using the Morning Prayer service from the Book of Common Prayer. We gathered at 10AM for a light brunch and then worshipped from 10:30-11:30. From 11:30 - Noonish we hung out, chatted and ate more food. Thanks to Kimberly Wade for a great brunch. Thanks to Trudi Matthews for leading

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Prayer request from Lester I'm to do a consultation and lead a workshop on contemporary worship in Winchester, Virginia in a week. I would appreciate your intercessions that what takes place would strengthen Christ's church for the glory of His Father and the benefit of His disciples. Thanks, Lester

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This Sunday marks the beginning of Saint Patrick's stage two meetings. This stage is centered on formation - investigating the scriptures to see what a missional community looks like. Here is the teaching schedule for the next 12 weeks (until Advent): 9.7 IT'S ALL ABOUT GOD ...a missional community is a God centered community... 9.14 GOD'S QUEST ...a missional community is a

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The Saint Pat's community had a great meeting tonight. We have officially crossed the threshold from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of our plant. We are now in the Formation Stage. When St. Columba left Ireland to bring the good news to the Picts, he took the team he had gathered while in Ireland and settled at the Island of Hy or as the Irish called it Ioua later to be called Iona. At Iona he launched

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Here are some books that have shaped me (Peter) and Saint Patrick's. I highly recommend getting them and giving them a read! (All the titles are linked to Amazon.com) Pax, Peter The Celtic Way of Evangelism by George Hunter. Looks at the mission of Patrick and the Celtic Church to draw lessons for mission in the 21st century. Ancient Future Faith by Robert Webber. This is a great summary of

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Check out the weblog of Trudi Matthews and read her Top Ten List of Prayer Book prayers. Pax, Peter

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Things are really beginning to unfold with Saint Patricks. Hard to believe that the dream is becoming a reality - solo deo gloria (i think i got the latin right). The Saint Pats launch group is being prayed for Sunday morning - tomorrow - at Church of the Apostles. It will be a blessed day in the Kingdom to see how God has raised this group up and how another community can stand behind with

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I am posting a link to an interesting article on the English spiritual tradition. It is by Robert Munday who , when he wrote the article, was a professor at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry. Now he is the Dean of Nashotah House Seminary in Wisconsin. Here is an excerpt. "The English situation illustrates both of these processes at work, but especially the latter one, and this is due to

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Hey, fellow Anglicans! I received Peter's invitation to blog and couldn't resist trying it out! I am very excited about our new church family! Here is what's up with me...I attended a Beth Moore conference in Cincinnati this weekend and the main point that I heard was that it is time to MOVE ON ! For me this means a couple of things. Obviously there is moving on to this new church, and a moving

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It's 6 am and I am waiting for the coffee to brew so I thought I would go ahead and get one TO DO taken care of for today. Let me just start by saying that I think whoever invented the feature on the coffeepot where you can get your cup of coffee and don't have to wait for the whole pot to finish brewing should be sainted. Or at least given a really big award. I would probably establish a

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Take a look at these two websites: Online Daily Office and Sacred Space . Each of these is designed to guide one through a period of devotion. The Online Daily Office is the prayer office from the Book of Common Prayer. Sacred Space is a creative guide for prayer set up by a group of Jesuits. Give them a try!! Pax, Peter

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Wednesday evening marked another meeting of the Saint Patrick's start up group. some folks had to be gone (you were missed) and we also had some new persons who are exploring St. Pat's. (Thanks for coming by the way!) We talked about our mission - what it will mean to be a missional community in the anglican tradition. It was good, but as always, a mission is never fully seen on paper nor

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We changed the language fo our planting timeline. The three phases we came up with originally were: Core, Congregation, Community. Alliterates nicely, but a friend recommended we not call the group that meets this summer the "core" team because it could make folks who join up down the road feel like second class participants because they were not part of the "core". I am printing the new

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