God’s Strange Wrath
“You ungrateful wretch! I have done so much for you, and still, all you do is complain. You make me so mad I’m going to take you out to dinner!” This is something that no-one has ever said to me. It is (paraphrased a wee bit) what God says to Israel in Psalm 78. Psalm […]
Sunday Habits
I came across a simple, but powerful thought during a continuing education lecture I was listening to this morning. “What we did last Sunday is a good predictor of what we will do this Sunday.” For many of us, that is getting up and coming to Epiphany. For some of us, it’s tuning in online. […]
Epiphany Worship “Mask-Optional” Beginning July 4
In line with the expiration of Virginia’s COVID-19 State of Emergency on June 30, Epiphany has made facemasks optional at church for those who have been vaccinated at both the 8:30 and 10:15am Sunday worship services. If you would like to wear a facemask at either service, you are more than welcome to continue to do […]
Naming a Reality and Now What?
I recently came across an article that dealt with something I have been seeing for a while now – growing and deepening differences and disagreements among evangelical Christians. The article doesn’t mince words. Its main point is that evangelicalism is fracturing in ways that won’t be undone. “The tectonic plates are shifting underfoot.” With all […]
Epiphany Star Newsletter for June and July 2021
“Red Eyed Time-Travelers,” Baptism Sunday schedule for July 11, “Jesus and our Babies,” social distancing ends at church, communion is now being offered with wine, Marriage Ministry goes for a walk in the park, missions report from Uganda Christian University.
New “Mask-Optional” Service at Epiphany
As State and Federal guidance has changed and COVID continues to recede in Northern Virginia, Epiphany is adapting its Sunday worship patterns. Our 8:30 service is now “mask optional” in line with the new guidance that those who have been vaccinated can safely meet together indoors without masks. If you are not wearing a facemask, […]
A Word About the CDC Announcement and Epiphany
Friends, you may remember how quickly things changed from “almost normal” to a totally different world during a week in March of 2020 as the pandemic began. It seems that the end of those major restrictions is coming in the same way, with little advance warning. What you may or may not remember is that […]
Now the Green Blade Rises: An Easter Visit to Arlington
There is an Easter hymn that when I first heard it, seemed a bit obscure. The first verse goes. Now the green blade riseth from the buried grain, Wheat that in dark earth many days has lain Love lives again that with the dead has been Love is come again like wheat that springeth green […]
Star Newsletter for April and May 2021
A Visit to Arlington, Easter at Epiphany, Coates Food Ministry Up and Running, Social Media Team Begins Work, Expanded In-Person Worship Schedule at Epiphany, Missionary Update from Belgium.
Holy Week and Easter At Epiphany
All Holy Week and Easter Services will be offered in-person and via livestream this year. Our schedule is: Maundy Thursday (Tenebrae): 7pm in-person and livestream Good Friday: Noon and 7pm in-person and livestream Great Vigil of Easter (Saturday): 7:30pm in-person and livestream Easter Sunday: 10:15am in-person and livestream. Due to limited capacity, please sign-up here […]