A Note from our Music Minister Mark Kuroski Hi Everyone, Spring is here! What’s your favorite part of spring in Texas? Mine has got to be all of the wildflowers along the roads and in the fields. It’s amazing to me how just a few weeks ago everything was looking brown and dead, and now...
As I scrolled back through the last few Lenten seasons, I was reminded of how much we have experienced over that time together. Each Lenten season, we gathered on Wednesday evenings, sometimes virtually and other times in person, to share in a time of prayer and study. In 2021, we studied Jesus’ teachings about storing...
Last week I attended the first portion of my final class at Phillips Theological Seminary. The class consists of two 3-day intensive sessions with this past week on Zoom and then I’ll travel to Tulsa in April for the second portion for three days of intensive work on Women in the Hebrew Bible. It is...
Yo howdy All Y’all – it is a beautiful day! “What kind of place grows waves of weeds? Thick weeds, thin weeds, weeds that grow in stacks. Tough weeds, fuzzy weeds, even weeds that grow in cracks – are wild weeds, native wild weeds – the kind of weeds that love to bloom!” I like...
I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. – John 15:1-2 No one likes the process of pruning and the pain of loss, but...
Yo howdy All Y’all – it is a beautiful day. Yay, the days still short are getting longer! Gardening with God in our “Garden of AUS” (Austin’s Urban Sanctuary) is challenging. TheyThemThy alwayspresents opportunities to steward towards accepting abundance and it is hard to keep up. I’m learning toaccept the abundance – unexpected flowers and...
