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Worship has begun for Common Grace Lutheran at St. Luke’s, Stephenville
A congregation of thirty-four people participated in the second worship service of Common Grace Lutheran Chapel, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Stephenville. The Rev. Kevin S. Kanouse, bishop of the Northern Texas – Northern Louisiana Mission Area of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), preached. The Rev. Janet Waggoner, canon to the Ordinary, Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, celebrated. The Rev. Curt Norman is rector of St. Luke’s. View worship photos taken by Margaret Norman. Listen to Bishop Kanouse’s sermon.
Common Grace Chapel begins ELCA Worship August 18 at St. Luke’s Stephenville
Common Grace Chapel will begin worship each Sunday evening at 5pm starting on August 18, 2013. Common Grace is a new, joint mission endeavor of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Stephenville, Texas, and the Northern Texas – Northern Louisiana Mission Area of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
Grace and creativity in worship during Covid 19 crisis
The leadership and clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth are responding in grace-filled and creative ways to physical distancing and suspension of in-person worship services in response to the coronavirus Covid 19 crisis. These include Drive-in Worship, Holy Communion Drive-Thru, live streamed Eucharists, and live streamed Morning Prayer services, as well as non-worship offerings such as the daily reading of children’s stories by the Rev. Bradley Dyche, rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Stephenville. “The church buildings…
Bishop High issues letter following court hearing
The Rt. Rev. Rayford B. High, Jr., issued this letter after the Friday, February, 20, 2015, hearing in the 141st District Court, Tarrant County. Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, In August 2013, you may remember, the Texas Supreme Court returned our case to the 141st District Court, Tarrant County, to be tried on different principles than in the previous hearing. Our hearing before the Honorable Judge John P. Chupp on both sides’ motions for partial summary judgment was today.…
Episcopal/Lutheran ministry aids new service in Comanche
Beginning on Sunday, June 8, the Rev. Curt Norman, rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and pastor of Common Grace Lutheran Church in Stephenville, will travel to Comanche on every second Sunday of the month to lead a communion/healing service at Hope Lutheran Church in Comanche. Hope Lutheran is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Comanche is a 30-minute drive southwest of Stephenville and slightly more than a two-hour drive from Fort Worth. A story in the…
St. Luke’s Stephenville Adds ELCA Worship Service
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Stephenville is entering into a partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). A Sunday evening service geared towards college students done according to Evangelical Lutheran worship will be added to schedule of services at St. Luke’s. There is no ELCA congregation less than 45 minutes in any direction of Stephenville, and The Episcopal Church and ELCA are in full communion with each other. Common Grace, a contemporary worship service to which all are…
. . .An outward visible sign of faith, hope, and love by a liberated people.
This is the sermon Bishop Scott Mayer preached at the Special Meeting of the Diocesan Convention June 18, 2021. ——————– North Texas Special Convention Trinity, Fort Worth June 18, 2022 We have arrived at a decisive moment for the Episcopal Church in 24 North Texas counties. I would suggest “arrived” is the right word, as it implies we have been on a journey – a journey that is coming close to full circle from the Mission Territory of Texas to…
Chain reaction of love
This is the sermon Bishop Scott Mayer preached at Trinity, Fort Worth, on the Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 22, 2022. —– Trinity Fort Worth 2022 6 Easter – Year C May 22 It’s wonderful to see you in person. It’s been three years since we have gathered for Confirmations, although we have celebrated your new ministry with your new rector, Robert. I want to express my gratitude for the way you navigated the pandemic as a congregation: the innovative…
Ash Wednesday services
The Christian Season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and continues for 40 days (not counting Sundays) before culminating in Holy Week and Easter Sunday. Ash Wednesday 2022 is on March 2 this year. Easter Sunday is April 17. On Ash Wednesday, Episcopalians, along with many other Christians in different traditions, wear a smudgy cross of ash on our foreheads to remind us of our mortality. This ancient ritual links us to countless generations who have turned humbly to God…
The Good News
This is the sermon Bishop Scott Mayer preached at the joint service of St. Christopher and St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church on the Third Sunday of Advent, December 12, 2021. St. Christopher has been worshiping at St. Matthew’s since they lost their building in the end of the litigation. —— St Christopher FW with St Matthew’s Lutheran December 12, 2021 I want to begin this morning by expressing gratitude on behalf of the Episcopal Church, this diocese, and St Christopher’s to…
Bishop Scott Mayer’s Address to Convention
This is Bishop Scott Mayer’s Address to the 39th Meeting of the Convention of the Episcopal Church in North Texas. Bishop Mayer delivered it as the sermon at the opening worship. You can read it below or download a PDF. North Texas Convention November 13, 2021 I would like to begin this morning by expressing gratitude to everyone who has worked to put together this virtual convention, including our host Texas Wesleyan University and their President Fred Slabach, all of…
“with enough foolishness to believe….”
This is the sermon the Rev. Kevin Johnson preached at the online worship service for St. Alban’s, Theatre Arlington, on the Second Sunday after Pentecost, June 6, 2021. ——– Pentecost + 2, Proper 5B, 2021 In the year 2018, a skinny 15-year-old girl skipped school to protest outside the Swedish Parliament building; standing there by herself, with a homemade sign reading “School strike for climate.” By September of 2019 in cities across the globe the School Strike for Climate had…
Featured live streamed services
The Episcopal Church in North Texas is featuring a different one of our congregation’s live streamed worship services every week. As more of our congregations add live streamed services, we will add them to the rotating featured spot. The Episcopal Church of North Texas is a new name for this diocese of The Episcopal Church that since 1983 has been the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. In early 2021, a secular court of law awarded that name to people who…
“The tomb is empty. Love is released.”
This is the sermon the Rt. Rev. Scott Mayer preached at the diocesan worship service for Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021. ——— Easter Day, North Texas April 4, 2021 Alleluia, Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia! Jesus Christ is risen today, and by his rising to new life, we are raised with him. For, resurrection happens not only to Jesus, but to us as well – and not only to us, but to all of creation. We…
“We wish to see Jesus”
This is the sermon the Rev. Karen Calafat preached at the diocesan worship service for the Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 21, 2021. —————- Lent 5B March 21, 2021 John 12:20-33 Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered…
God still transforms, still calls us
This is the sermon the Rev. Allison Sandlin Liles preached at the First Sunday after the Epiphany, the Baptism of our Lord, January 10, 2021. ——- January 10, 2020 Diocese of FW Baptism of our Lord, Mark 1:4-11 This week we observed the last few days of Christmas, then welcomed in the season after the Epiphany. Epiphany is the day we remember the coming of Magi following the star to visit the Christ child. The word Epiphany means to manifest…