Lent

By Deacon Adam Salter Gosnell To talk about Lent, I need to talk about seminary. My undergraduate was about skipping home to talk to Rebecca about some idea I had learned today, and how it’d changed how I thought about the world. But at seminary, my intellectual...

World Mission Sunday 2017 & CTR Missions

This first appeared as a letter sent out 2/17/2017 to the CTR e-Lectio mailing list. If you’d like to join the mailing list you can sign-up on the bottom of our website home page, www.ctrnorthshore.org.   Since returning from New Zealand your Director of...

Healing Wounds of Heart and Mind

by Fran Craig I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. … For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.  (Romans 7:15,18b) We all want to be perfect parents, perfect sons or...

Winter Women’s Brunch 2017

A great time was had at the Winter Women’s Brunch last Saturday, January 28. A wonderful (and large!) group of women of all ages gathered in the Parish Hall to hear two very different, personal accounts of God at work. An audio recording of their presentations...

Servant Leaders

By David Lee Flora, Paloma and I come from a non-denominational “bible church” background and have been attending CTR for three years now. We first came because Paloma’s friend Lian attended the youth group and our daughter wanted to see her. When we got to CTR for...