Rector's Blog
Rector's Blog: From For to With
Passion for Mission is in Redeemer’s DNA. Yes, our relationship with outreach is always developing, never perfect. And sure, it’s easy enough for people to assume since we’re an Episcopal Church in Hyde Park we are content to exist in a lit...
Read MoreRector's Blog: The Air You Breathe
We’ve been using the word “Inspired” a lot lately, and sometimes I get nervous about it. Not because I don’t believe in inspiration – I do! It makes me nervous because I’m always apprehensive of churches that, in seeking to be inspi...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Bursting With Inspired Energy
We are well into our Fall Annual Giving Campaign for 2020, and I am already inspired by the enthusiasm, generosity, and faithfulness of the people of Redeemer. If you have already made your pledge, I want to thank you for your commitment. If you ...
Read MoreRector's Blog: No Such Thing As Secular
Last Spring, I preached a sermon about the political implications of the Gospel. It was, I have to tell you, not my favorite topic. Talking about divisive things in the church makes me squirm, and what’s more divisive than politics in our curre...
Read MoreRector's Blog: When Your Money Matters
First and foremost, everything we do as the Church is oriented in the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. We’re talking about money, of course. I’ve been writing about money for the last few weeks, and I’m not done yet! But I want to remin...
Read MoreRector's Blog: For Love or Money?
Money was one of the first things that scared me when I was thinking about becoming a priest. There was the selfish fear, of course, that emerged as I asked one friend, “But do you people actually make a living?” But deeper than that, was a m...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Talking About Money
Do you know how many bad conversations I’ve had when talking with people about giving money to the Church? Zero. I have never had a bad conversation about giving. In years of working in a faith community that requires fundraising, every single ...
Read MoreRector's Blog: The Kingdom of God. Now.
"My aim in life, to the extent I can remember it and do it, is to help bring the Kingdom of God closer now.” These are the words of Mike Krug , a man who’s been a part of the Redeemer community for longer than I’ve been alive, as he refl...
Read MoreRector's Blog: You are God's gift to the world
Do you remember the first time you heard someone sarcastically say, “That person thinks they’re God’s gift to the world”? Remember how that was supposed to be a bad thing? It suggests an ego out of control, a person who’s lost perspecti...
Read MoreRector's Blog: Changing the Way You Live
How is this church changing the way you live in the world?
This is really the question.
Whenever you share about what you hope our church will become, whenever you consider our Vision of a Worshiping Community that Knows Jesus and Grows i...
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