St. Luke Anglican Church

James shared how the Apostle Paul humbly presented the truths of the Gospel to a community that was tempted by the world. The Light of the Gospel illuminating the mind produces a people who are simultaneously ordinary as jars of clay, yet extremely precious because we are related to and in proximity with the true treasure, Jesus Christ. Connect with us! https://stlukemd.org/im-new Give here: https...

The Who, What, and Why we choose to worship can forms our identity. James points us to consider the concept of a Triune God as the shape of reality formed in dynamic relationship and encourages us to see how we are invited into participation in that flowing movement of Life and Love. Connect with us! https://stlukemd.org/im-new Give here: https://stlukemd.org/give

We invite you outside with us in honor of Pentecost as James invites us into a re-enchanted experience with the God, Creation, and one other by attuning ourselves to the movement of the Holy Spirit. Connect with us! https://stlukemd.org/im-new Give here: https://stlukemd.org/give

In celebration of Ascension Sunday in this season of Eastertide, James walks us through Jesus' returning to the Father and their reuniting. At the moment of farewell, Jesus sends out his followers to continue the work that they can't accomplish without Christ. Jesus does not only commission them, but promises his presence, his Name, and his prayer. In this, the disciples, and now we ourselves, are...

Inner dialogues, we all have them. There are all manner of voices contained in our hearts and minds, vying for control and influence. When our hearts accuse us in the presence of God, who knows us in perfect intimacy, what do we tend to do? What can we do? Might there be another way? Connect with us! https://stlukemd.org/im-new Give here: https://stlukemd.org/give

What do we do when we come face to face with the violence within our own hearts, our very shadow-selves? We are prompted to see that there are two main tendencies, to mar and destroy that which holds our blame, or to deny its existence altogether. But James invites us to witness the nature of Sunflowers: they turn themselves to face the Sun in reception and gratitude - this is the contemplative, C...

From the accounts of the Apostles, Rector James Madden reminds us that we are not the center of our narratives - no matter the high places or the low points we find ourselves. The resurrection of Christ demands we orient our lives in a new way. Connect with us! https://stlukemd.org/im-new Give here: https://stlukemd.org/give

Continuing in this Easter season, guest preacher Kolby Kerr invites us to not rush past the marks of wound that the resurrected Christ bore. More than that, the memories of desertion and abandonment that the apostle Peter carried into his ministry. Our pasts are not erased, they are redeemed and a central part of our presence and work within the Kingdom of God. Connect with us! https://stlukemd.or...

In this Second Sunday of Eastertide, join us as Kimberley delivers a baptismal homily full of encouragement, challenge, and hope, calling us to remember our baptism. Connect with us! https://stlukemd.org/im-new Give here: https://stlukemd.org/give

In celebration of Easter, Kimberley draws our attention to the impossible and trustworthy nature of the resurrection of Christ Jesus. Our God is in the business of doing the unimaginable, of moving the immovable. What are the unlikely-to-be-moved boulders in your life that you struggle to give to the God who raised Jesus the Christ? Connect with us! https://stlukemd.org/im-new Give here: https://s...

Human beings, even today in the modern West, have an obsession with royalty. There is something about the gravitas of a king that preoccupies our hearts and our minds. We long for someone to step into authority and begin to set things aright. Palm Sunday marks the Christian celebration of Jesus as King as he processes into Jerusalem before his passion. What kind of king is he? What sort of kingdom...

The story of ancient Israel is one of cyclical disenchantment and re-enchantment. The blessing of covenantal relationship with God that once was a gift would become to them a burden, yet God would remain and renew his promises. God's covenant with God's people is no longer primarily about our public and corporate standing within our communities but rather our internal posture before God and the fu...

We mark the fourth week of Lent by continuing to look at the Ten Commandments. Jame's challenges us to receive that the Ten Commandments give being and purpose not only to us as individuals but as a community. Looking specifically at bearing false witness and coveting, we face the ugly truth of what following our lusts and delights produces not only within us, but what it causes to our neighbor. L...

When God answers our prayers and we finally find the freedom we want, what happens next? What do we do when we’re finally there? James offers to us that the Ten Commandments provides the guidelines and framework for life after and within freedom. Just like navigators using the stars as an external pattern of orientation of being and purpose, any way of being structured around anything other than t...

In marking the second week of Lent, James helps us to focus on the contrast between the Way of Empire and the Way of Christ. The never-ending quest for power by worldly empires, and the empires within our own souls, is marked by the right to assumed authority based on might and to take, take, and take. The result, however, is nothing but anxiety and fear. In the relentless pursuit of power, the Wa...

As we enter the season of Lent, we remember that it is a time, like every wilderness narrative in Scripture, by deep and formative change. In these experiences, we can pursue two paths: Our way marked by self-determination and inflaming the ego, or the Way of Christ and humility, justice, and peace. One prepares us for lives of peace, purpose, and significance, while the other leaves others to pay...

To mark Ash Wednesday, James invites us into a raw and vulnerable experience as we reflect on our shared human reality: we are dust. Yet, in that nature, the Psalmist notes that God knows that our form is dust and still chooses to breathe his Breath and send his Spirit into us. It is in the midst of this awareness of our mortality, frailty, and weakness, marked by the ashes we wear on this day, th...

Was the Transfiguration of Christ before Peter, James, and John only a singular event in history? James points us to the fact that each of us has quiet and dynamic encounters in which a light shines within us and unveils not only our true selves but also the Way of Christ before us. Theses transcendent moments of transfiguration are universal, bodily, and transformational experiences. To round out...

In recognizing World Mission Sunday alongside Epiphany, James invites us to share in a wider perspective. We are not called to simply be solitary and individual thinkers in private faith, but to take our place in the family of Christ around the world and throughout the centuries. More than that, us here in the West are the very "nations," the "ends of the earth," to whom the Gospel of Christ Jesus...

To mark the Fourth Week of Epiphany, James teaches us that the knowledge of God's Kingdom reality revealed to us through Christ Jesus is for the purposes of 1) loving God, 2) navigating our own world and reality, 3) not supporting a "you do you" mentality within us, and 4) loving others. James reminds us that power and freedom grow proportionally to our knowledge, but that can often be a dangerous...

The idea of Manifestation is sweeping through our younger generations. But trying to satisfy the longing to see real change in life to avoid despair and hopelessness is nothing new. We have been taught that we have to make things happen, pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, or risk being swept up by life. But the reality is this: Jesus calls us, we don't have to call ourselves. We have reason for...

In this the Second Week in the season of Epiphany, Kimberley draws our attention to the call narrative of Philip and Nathaniel in the Gospel according to John. Kimberley highlights the way that Jesus finds Philip, the way that Jesus sees Nathaniel from afar, and the way that Jesus calls them both to invite them into the promise of the reality of the unity between our world and God's kingdom. God c...

The season of Epiphany marks the fulfillment of God's promises. The narrative of Scriptures reveal that God establishes covenantal relationships with his people by being at once Promise-Maker and Promise-Keeper, and in no greater way is this story told than in the baptism of Jesus as found in the Gospel of Mark. James encourages us to pay attention to the unremarkable details of our lives, for tha...

On this New Years Eve, James asks: As the year closes and a new 2024 dawns, do you know God more, and know about God more, than you did a year ago? Where in your life do you need to know God more? Where do you need to receive Christ as Truth and extend the sweet and costly Grace of Christ? May these Realities be the Lens through which we live and move and have our being this new year. Connect with...

This Christmas Eve, James reminds us that the mystery of the Divine Presence is imminent with us in the discomfort of our present situations. We are invited to hold Life, the Divine Source, living and breathing together through all the pain, frustration, and confusion of our existence. This is the Incarnation we celebrate at Christmas, God is with us and has made his home among us, moving into our...