by BBTSChurch | Sep 28, 2023 | Parish Life
Dear Friends, One of my favorite Peanuts comic strips unfolds this way: Charlie Brown is worrying about something – as usual – and lamenting about it to his faithful beagle. He concludes by saying, “Oh Snoopy, you’re so lucky, you don’t have a care in the world.” But...
by BBTSChurch | Sep 26, 2023 | Sunday Readings
Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 Reading 1 Then God spoke all these words:2 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3 you shall have no other gods before me.4 You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form...
by BBTSChurch | Sep 24, 2023 | Sunday Readings
Exodus 17:1-7 Reading 1 From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 The people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water...
by BBTSChurch | Sep 21, 2023 | Parish Life
Dear Friends, “Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all our years away; they fly, forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day.” You may recognize these lines as a well-loved verse from the hymn “O God, our help in ages past.” It speaks to the fleeting nature of...
by BBTSChurch | Sep 17, 2023 | Sunday Readings
Exodus 16:2-15 Reading 2 The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. 3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of...
