Jan 12, 2022 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris “Wow! It is so good to make music with you again.” John and I had played together in a church band for a number of years. I knew that he was struggling with a deep sense of discontentment — in his church, his marriage, and his job. On more than one...
Jan 5, 2022 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris This year, I received one of the most meaningful Christmas presents I have ever received. It’s not very often that you get a gift that was over twenty years in the making. To explain, I need to give a little back story. When my mother turned...
Dec 29, 2021 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris I enjoy a film that makes you really think and wrestle with a topic or idea. For example, I revel in a good “twist” at the end — one that forces you to go back and rethink everything up to that point. I’m talking about the “aha” moment when the...
Dec 20, 2021 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris “Gloria in excelsis deo.” It is probably the most familiar of the four Christmas songs in Luke’s gospel. One of my favorite moments in our traditional Christmas Eve service is when one of our young people stands before the church and reads that...
Dec 15, 2021 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris Waiting. It is one of the central themes of Advent — that pregnant pause as Mary and Joseph wait for the arrival of their child. It is the intervening time between the articulation and the fulfillment of Christ’s promises to us all. Simeon’s song...
Dec 8, 2021 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris What is it like to have speech restored after a prolonged period of complete silence? A few years back, a medical issue required that I undergo extensive jaw surgery. For weeks, I could talk only with very careful and laborious effort. This...
