In Our Prayers
Please pray for:
Edwina Johnson; Blane Roehrich; Kengan Richardson; Cameron Jackson; Evelyn Lane; Emily Bailey; Russell Gray; Kara Russe; Carol Anglin; Brynda Roth; Linda Jordan; Pat Broach; Rhonda Thrailkill; Bruce Hall; Pam McGarity; Stan Brassie; Cole Dixon; Sophia Baginski; Vida Broach; Frank Koposesky; Peggy Bresser; Krista Reba; Kelly Smith; Heather Woodward; Meredith Farmer; Bill Ramsay; Brenten Cruthirds; Kayla; Sam Owens; Liz Jaye; Jennifer Manasco; Carol Quinn; Dawn Miles; Barbara Preston; Jackie Hall; Helen Cohenour; Teresa; Kelley and Pam Dillard; Mitzi; Adria; David B.; Donna H.; Rion Henderson; Al Henderson; Dana Henderson; Anne Gooch McLane; Sara Wilkes; McCall Wright; Speedie; Tyler Laughery; Don & Jeani Holder; Krista Mulcahy; John Mulcahy, III; Elfonso; Daniel Dover; Richard Pardue; Abbey Malcolm; Valerie Richards; Teresa Allison; Kim Brown; Cal Mannes; Jake Bathun; Christopher Ray; Family & Friends of Lalla Tanner
Please pray for our Vestry:
Bob Emmons; Jennifer Finegan; Dan House; Michael Hulchanski; Dick Jones; Jennifer Mata; Carol Nufer; Valerie Richards; Jon Spear
Please pray for our Priest:
Fr. Rich Bardusch
Bishop’s Message
God’s first call created all things. God’s second call was to a married couple, Abram and Sarai, an aged man and woman struggling with infertility. Through them God created an alternative community to embody the power of blessing in human history. With just a few words, “Go…and I will show you…I will bless you…I will make you a blessing…,” God promises to be their portion. Portion: destiny, fulfillment, fortune, heritage, healing, security, peace, sustenance and satisfaction. If this story was about two elite spiritual athletes long ago it would be extremely unhelpful. But, they held no qualifications for the honor and blessing God bestowed on them–just like us. God doesn’t call the qualified, God qualifies those whom God calls! Like Abram and Sarai, we are to live lives energized by God’s promises which model a particular way of living for the world. Before this encounter with God they were an immobilized family limited by conventions and traditions. Now they are a responsive family animated by a God with an outrageous imagination. Everything changed for them when they decided to believe that they were who God said they were and heirs to what God said was theirs. In God’s call to Abram and Sarai both the promise and the mechanism for proof of God’s reliability are present. Daily living as a pilgrimage with God, is the only way we can know with our minds, souls and bodies that God is a promise-keeping God! Pilgrimage is how we road test the reliability of God’s promise to be our portion. Once they hear the promise, Abram and Sarai start packing. Worship is faith in action. God was their portion and God deeply desires for us to know and confess that God is our portion.
Genesis 12:1-4a
Bible Readings
Bible Readings for March 1
- Genesis 12:1-4a
- Psalm 121
- Romans 4:1-5, 13-17
- John 3:1-17
Bible Readings for March 8
- Exodus 17:1-7
- Psalm 95
- Romans 5:1-11
- John 4:5-42
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
- March 3 – Tommy Thrailkill
- March 4 – Ron Mullis
- March 5 – Barbara Preston
- March 6 – Larry Schmidt