building a community of grace
We have entered once again into the sacred season of Advent—a time when the Church gathers to remember and celebrate the deep gifts of hope, joy, peace, love, and the wondrous birth of our Saviour. Yet this year, as we speak of hope, we do so in a world that feels weighed down by despondency;... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- November, with the appropriate mixture of rain, cold, grouch, and people in the streets wheezing and coughing. Also the month that starts with All Saints (Allerheiligen) and All Souls Day (Allerseelen), followed, at least in my home region in the Lower Rhine, by “Allerhubert” on... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- It was one of my first gifts for my wife Lauren. I had drawn it after a picture of a small wooden sculpture of a child faithfully resting in a big hand. I wanted to share with Lauren this beautiful image of complete trust, no... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday the 9th of November 2025 - Remembrance Sunday Reading: Job 19:23-27 On this Remembrance Sunday, as we recall the end of the First World War, we are invited to pause and remember — to remember the pain, the agony, the displacement, and the terrible violence that war has carved into the heart of... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Last year I received a few posts on social media of a guy named James Partridge, a music teacher. What started out as a family in-joke really took off for him during the COVID-19 lockdown. While teaching online, a friend suggested he try TikTok, and... Continue Reading →
A Pastoral Letter based on Deuteronomy 26:5–10 Dearly Beloved in Christ, At the heart of sensible and sensitive Christian living lies a spirit of remembrance and humility. During the harvest thanksgiving, the Israelites were commanded to make a confession before God: “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor.” (Deuteronomy 26:5). This was no mere ritual of history—it was... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- One of the most confusing things I encountered 40 years ago when I moved to Germany were all the different church holidays. The big ones , Christmas and Easter I knew and some others like Ascension and Pentecost were easy to understand. The two holidays... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- The feeling of being home versus being a visitor. Have you ever walked into a room and instantly felt like “I am home, i am where i belong”. The other day, in my Religion Course, the question “what does the church mean to me?” was... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In recent days, when I was discouraged about possibly losing a job which I love, my circumstances were put into perspective in the form of a visit from a family friend from Jerusalem. This Israeli medical doctor updated us about all the collective trauma going... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In my youth group at the Protestant church in Waldkirch, we looked at this book and read several stories from it: ICONS – Heroes of Faith from the Bible and Today, published by Herder. It mainly deals with lesser-known stories but also includes some better-known... Continue Reading →
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