When Jesus went back to his home place, Nazareth, they invited him to preach in the synagogue. Their first reaction to him was extremely favorable. They were astonished at the gracious words he spoke. However, their admiration soon turned into doubt, then into hostility. What went wrong? They still…
Hurricane Irma hit Naples less than a year and a half ago, decimating many parts of our beloved community. We are blessed that the anticipated storm surge never materialized, as it would have put all of Naples Park under feet of water, and flooded our church into its second story. …
Today in medicine there is so much specialization that the body tends to be broken up into parts. Some doctors specialize in the heart, others in the brain, others in the eye, others in the ear, and so on. Specialization is good but it can have a downside. Specialists may…
I want to thank every member of our Parish Family for continuing with the flexibility we have all learned over the past year when it comes to our campus. When we first closed the church building in June to allow for the invasive testing to determine the full extent of…
If we take the miracle of Cana literally, we reduce it to a once-off wonder and greatly limit its meaning. It’s not really about the power to change water into wine. We already know how to do that – it happens every year in our vineyards and wineries. The miracle…
