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COMING UP AT ST. BARNABAS
Sunday, May 3
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Susan Jackson - preacher
Rev. Phoebe - celebrant
8:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite I
10:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite II
Susan Jackson - preacher
Rev. Phoebe - celebrant
8:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite I
10:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite II
Sunday, May 10
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
Father Justin - preacher and celebrant
8:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite I
9:00AM Sunday Seminar
10:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite II
Father Justin - preacher and celebrant
8:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite I
9:00AM Sunday Seminar
10:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite II
COMING UP AT ST. BARNABAS
Sunday, May 3
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Susan Jackson - preacher
Rev. Phoebe - celebrant
8:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite I
10:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite II
Susan Jackson - preacher
Rev. Phoebe - celebrant
8:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite I
10:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite II
Sunday, May 10
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
Father Justin - preacher and celebrant
8:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite I
9:00AM Sunday Seminar
10:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite II
Father Justin - preacher and celebrant
8:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite I
9:00AM Sunday Seminar
10:00AM Holy Eucharist Rite II
What I love about St. Barnabas!
I love the sense of peace and homecoming that I always find at St. Barnabas - a feeling of true sanctuary. But even more important is the way our community embodies family and belonging. What I love best is our mutual determination to be our best for one another.
- Sarah Bleasdale
When we moved here a year and half ago, we knew we wanted to find an Episcopal church and we tried several in the area and we kept coming back to St. Barnabas because it is just so full of spirit and the worship is fantastic. There's a great rector and a lot of activity going on. So, we're hooked!
- Cleve Callison
When I was asked what I loved about Saint Barnabas, I thought, “Well that’s easy.” The music, the people, the liturgy, the music, the sermons, the pastoral leadership, the feeling of family, the music, and the list goes on!
- Pam Bye
We love the community of St. Barnabas. We have made new friends and deepened existing friendships. Justin's weekly sermons center and uplift us. And we leave each Sunday feeling hopeful. We feel so blessed to be part of such a wonderful and welcoming place.
- Sally and Kirk Bedell
We love coming to St. Barnabas because the people in the church make us feel welcome and included as a part of the community. The music is beautiful, and the sermons are engaging, relevant, and full of encouragement.
- Brett and Elizabeth Wheeler
I’ve been a part of the weekly service at St. Barnabas for 30 years. My granddaughter Skylar has joined me every week the last 4 years. Sunday mornings rejuvenates my faith in God. The kindness throughout the congregation and staff is a gift from God. All this adds to the ease of living in Peace by the grace of God!
The beauty and tranquillity at St. Barnabas we really enjoy!
- Bruce Kelly
What I love about St. Barnabas!
I love the sense of peace and homecoming that I always find at St. Barnabas - a feeling of true sanctuary. But even more important is the way our community embodies family and belonging. What I love best is our mutual determination to be our best for one another.
- Sarah Bleasdale
When we moved here a year and half ago, we knew we wanted to find an Episcopal church and we tried several in the area and we kept coming back to St. Barnabas because it is just so full of spirit and the worship is fantastic. There's a great rector and a lot of activity going on. So, we're hooked!
- Cleve Callison
When I was asked what I loved about Saint Barnabas, I thought, “Well that’s easy.” The music, the people, the liturgy, the music, the sermons, the pastoral leadership, the feeling of family, the music, and the list goes on!
- Pam Bye
We love the community of St. Barnabas. We have made new friends and deepened existing friendships. Justin's weekly sermons center and uplift us. And we leave each Sunday feeling hopeful. We feel so blessed to be part of such a wonderful and welcoming place.
- Sally and Kirk Bedell
We love coming to St. Barnabas because the people in the church make us feel welcome and included as a part of the community. The music is beautiful, and the sermons are engaging, relevant, and full of encouragement.
- Brett and Elizabeth Wheeler
I’ve been a part of the weekly service at St. Barnabas for 30 years. My granddaughter Skylar has joined me every week the last 4 years. Sunday mornings rejuvenates my faith in God. The kindness throughout the congregation and staff is a gift from God. All this adds to the ease of living in Peace by the grace of God! The beauty and tranquillity at St. Barnabas we really enjoy!
- Bruce Kelly
LATEST SERMON
Awesome with Such Intimacy
Father Justin
The God of Jesus Christ is both transcendent and intimate, fearsome and tender, all at the same time. In the story of the two disciples who walk, unwittingly, with the resurrected Christ on the road to Emmaus, Jesus doesn't return from death as a conquering warrior seeking revenge but as a patient teacher who walks alongside those who are frightened and confused. Like the Renaissance master Raphael who could depict both God's majesty riding storm clouds and his intimacy in the Christ child pressing his cheek up to Mary’s, we're called to embrace both aspects of God's nature. This challenges our expectations of divine power: God's strength is revealed not in domination but in persistence, not in punishment but in presence.
FOR BETTER, FOR VERSE PODCAST
Power, Projections, and Providence
Fr. J & Dr. J
In this episode on Judges and Ruth, Justin and Jewelle explore how the Biblical writers are gradually becoming aware that God works in the world in many varied and complicated ways. In Judges, we see God rewarding holiness and punishing wrongdoing, but we also see God partnering with flawed people, striving to rack up little wins even in the midst of big failures, and conspiring to help good people to whom bad things happen. At one point, God clearly has nothing to do with something the characters in the story think God has everything to do with. By the end, Israel has failed in its attempt to govern itself through judges, setting up the story of monarchy. But there's no easy triumphalism: Israel needs a king to keep going, but only because they've shown they don't want God himself to be their king.