by Mark Kurowski | Jan 11, 2018 | Blog, Kenneth Tanner |
Editor’s Note: This message about Christmas was so wonderful, we have decided to publish it even though we have now recently left Christmas Season. I have come to appreciate when the retail-driven Christmas draws to a close and the more ancient celebration of...
by Mark Kurowski | May 9, 2016 | Blog, Kenneth Tanner |
I love the honesty of the gospels. Here we have the closing moment of Matthew, the moment to bring it all home, the moment to make “the sale,” and Matthew tells us that after all these wondrous signs—the resurrected Jesus appearing to them in flesh and...
by Mark Kurowski | Mar 30, 2016 | Blog, Kenneth Tanner |
Kenneth Tanner Rector, Holy Redeemer Church, Rochester Hills, MI Holy Saturday is where the world lives now, awaiting resurrection. There is darkness that remains despite all Easters. Christians need to be honest about this reality even as we boldly confess and...
by Mark Kurowski | Mar 30, 2016 | Blog, Kenneth Tanner |
Kenneth Tanner Rector, Holy Redeemer Church, Rochester Hills, MI This Friday reveals that there is no question about where Jesus stands. Jesus stands squarely with humanity. Jesus rejects all human and demonic contempt for mankind, identifies himself with our worst...
by Mark Kurowski | Mar 30, 2016 | Blog, Kenneth Tanner |
Kenneth Tanner Rector, Holy Redeemer Church, Rochester Hills, MI Yet this incalculable energy—even the smallest fraction of it leaves us in awe—is harnessed to an extreme humility. What this moment at the last supper reveals, what this washing of feet shows us, is...
by Mark Kurowski | Mar 30, 2016 | Blog, Kenneth Tanner |
Kenneth Tanner Rector, Holy Redeemer Church, Rochester Hills, MI We begin in darkness, scores gathered around the clergy, a choir of acolytes and many more in brown robes, like old school friar’s habits, some with hoods raised. These are the catechumens, ready for the...
