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COMING UP AT ST. BARNABAS
Sunday, March 1
The Second Sunday in Lent
Father Justin - preacher and celebrant
8AM Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
9AM Forum
10AM Holy Eucharist (Rite II)
Changemakers Check In
Father Justin - preacher and celebrant
8AM Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
9AM Forum
10AM Holy Eucharist (Rite II)
Changemakers Check In
Sunday, March 8
The Third Sunday in Lent
Rev. Phoebe - preacher and celebrant
8AM Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
9AM Forum
10AM Holy Eucharist (Rite II)
Rev. Phoebe - preacher and celebrant
8AM Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
9AM Forum
10AM Holy Eucharist (Rite II)
COMING UP AT ST. BARNABAS
Sunday, March 1
The Second Sunday in Lent
Father Justin - preacher and celebrant
8AM Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
9AM Forum
10AM Holy Eucharist (Rite II)
Changemakers Check In
Father Justin - preacher and celebrant
8AM Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
9AM Forum
10AM Holy Eucharist (Rite II)
Changemakers Check In
Sunday, March 8
The Third Sunday in Lent
Rev. Phoebe - preacher and celebrant
8AM Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
9AM Forum
10AM Holy Eucharist (Rite II)
Rev. Phoebe - preacher and celebrant
8AM Holy Eucharist (Rite I)
9AM Forum
10AM 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
A Time of Testing
Roger Bullard
No one looks forward to those pesky mid-term hour-tests in school. Or enduring the three-hour final exams where we are called to demonstrate wisdom in those blue books. But all of life is a time of testing. Never more so as we are called to live into our faith during these forty days of Lent.
So often we, as God’s people, fall short of God’s expectations. God’s challenge to us is ‘to be holy, as I am holy.’ Gifted with free will, we stumble and fail to live into our faith. Adam and Eve fall away, lured by the voice of the serpent. As does Judas Isariot, for a pittance of silver. None are perfect. As in the example of Peanuts’ Charlie Brown. Fails constantly. Never wins a baseball game. Can’t kick a football. His kite always crashes into a tree.
But our faith journey, like Charlie Brown’s is not measured by perfection. But by persistence. Charlie never gives up hope. Nor must we, as we journey to live in the example of Jesus. Who, as he turns away the blandishments of Satan, offers us the perfect example of faith. Man does not live by bread alone, but by the word of God. Have faith in the Lord thy God, for he will shelter you and keep you safe in times of trouble. Jesus reminds us there are no shortcuts on our journey to the riches awaiting us in the Kingdom of God.
FOR BETTER, FOR VERSE PODCAST
The One About Leviticus
Fr. J & Dr. J
In this episode, Justin and Jewelle explore the conclusion of Exodus and the whole book of Leviticus, focusing on the Golden Calf episode, God's loving determination to keep his covenant with Israel in spite of their wrongdoing, the nature of idolatry, the significance of sacrifice, and how we must distinguish between what's universal and contingent, applicable and inapplicable, in the Scriptures. Exodus and Leviticus say God and humanity have a common goal—for humanity to behold the glory of the Lord in God's personal company—and that the complex sacrificial system of Leviticus is a way God provides for humanity to clean up its act (literally!) so that goal can be reached. God's love and God's justice are a difficult circle to square when people like us and a world like this are concerned. Sacrifice and atonement are the solution—one that points us, in the fullness of time, to what God accomplishes for us in Jesus Christ.