December 18, 2024 Advent, Blue Christmas, and Christmastide This coming Sunday is the final Sunday of Advent. It is a season of anticipation, watchful anticipation, and preparation. One of my favorite prayers goes like this: for what was, for what is, and for what will be, give thanks to God. I wonder if in the rush […]
December 11. 2024 With and Without Shelter Sunday night we opened our doors to people in need of shelter. We will have guests revisiting from last year and new ones throughout the week. We have been privileged to offer a place for our guests to come and receive a warm meal, conversation, and a quiet […]
November 27, 2024 An Experience of the Holy Spirit & Its Gifts an offering by Dick Fichter, parishioner with support from Rev. Dina Background After attending graduate school for some time, I decided that research was not for me, and I accepted a position as a patent examiner with the U. S. Patent Office in […]
November 20, 2024 The Holy Spirit from the Old & New Testaments an offering by Dick Fichter, parishioner with support from Rev. Dina Difference in Modis Operandi of the Gifts of the Spirit in the Old and New Testament Although the spirit is the same throughout the Bible, it is said that there is a […]
November 13, 2024 The Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and Holy Ghost, One in the Same an offering by Dick Fichter, parishioner with support from Rev. Dina Because of my age, I grew up with the Holy Ghost and not the Holy Spirit. I just have to keep in mind the old adage by Indiana poet James […]
November 6, 2024 A Unity Found in a Beautiful Diversity View an Election Message from Northern Virginia Clergy & Lay Faith Leaders HERE This past week Northern Virginia Clergy and church lay leaders offered their time to participate in a message of hope. Epiphany was grateful to be able to participate. Join in Welcoming our […]
October 30, 2024 Pneumatology: Christian theology which deals with the Holy Spirit, Part 1offering by Dick Fichter, parishioner with support from Rev. Dina Turning from the procession of the Holy Spirit, from a few weeks ago, I want to look more closely at Pneumatology, which is from the Greek pneuma (wind, breath, spirit) and logia […]
October 23, 2024 The 2025 stewardship campaign began this past Sunday and will run through November 17th! This campaign season gives us a chance to deeply consider our response to God’s call for us. How will we give what has been given to us to minister to a hurting world in need of deep and […]
October 16, 2024 In the next several weeks and through the year to come, we will explore the depths or our welcome to each other and the world so we can expand our welcome! Maybe the most authentic exprience of “welcome” is when we can feel ourselves stand… and others, when they spend time with […]
October 9, 2024 The countdown has officially begun! The 2025 Stewardship Campaign comes to us fully on Sunday 10/20! You may have seen the You Welcomed Me signs increasingly displayed around the church these past few weeks! They are clues about the campaign. Have you noticed? Have you wondered? What is a stewardship campaign? It is a […]