By Rev. Fritz Ritsch, D. Min., Pastor, St. Stephen Presbyterian Church, Fort Worth, Texas
There was a moment at the NEXT Church Conference in Dallas that made my jaw set and my stomach clench.Read More »The Church Come of Age
Just a few weeks ago, I was installed and ordained as a youth elder in our church… which seems kind of odd… youth…elder, … oxymoron.… Read More »The Roof and the Youth of St. Stephen!
This is the timeline we’ll be using in The Northminster Sunday School Class, Sunday, Feb. 20, when we’re discussing Bonhoeffer’s attempt at Church-Based Resistance.Read More »Timeline: Bonhoeffer and Church-Based Attempts to Resist Hitler, 1933-39
by Mark Scott, Music Minister
The Lenten season extends over a forty-six day period beginning Ash Wednesday and ending on Saturday evening prior to Easter Day. However, the six Sundays in Lent are not actually a part of Lent (thus they are styled Sundays IN Lent rather than Sundays OF Lent) making the actual number of days in Lent 40. The date of Ash Wednesday is determined by the date of Easter. This year, Ash Wednesday is February 22.Read More »Ash Wednesday: the beginning of Lent
Former PC(USA) moderator and prolific blogger Bruce Reyes-Chow has started a petition drive called “There is more than one version of Christianity!” His point is that there is a great deal of diversity the Christian family. Christians need to be more tolerant of one another and the media and culture need to recognize Christian diversity, too.Read More »Big Tent?
Ash Wednesday, Family Friendly Service & Supper
Wednesday, February 22, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
The church staff and the Worship Committee invite all parents and children to attend the “child-friendly” and multi-sensory Ash Wednesday Service for Children & Families, Wednesday, February 22. Participants will gather in the sanctuary narthex (front hall) and the service will take place in the sanctuary. Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Lenten Season, where we prepare ourselves and our families for the life, miracles, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This service includes a child-friendly Lord’s Supper and the Application of Ashes. Read More »Ash Wednesday, Family Friendly Service & Meal
In April 1945, weeks before the fall of the third Reich, German Lutheran theologian and pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed in Flossenburg, a Nazi prison… Read More »Bonhoeffer Class Co-Taught by Rev. Ritsch and Richard Parr Starts Feb. 5
The Second “NEXT Church” Conference will be held at First Pres, Dallas, February 27-28. As the PCUSA experiences change generated both from within and… Read More »“NEXT” Church Con in Dallas Explores the Future of the PCUSA–You Should Go!
Our unofficial church historian, Cathy Corder, has unearthed some fascinating documents from the early days of St. Stephen. Most interesting are those that detail the process our predecessor church, Broadway Presbyterian, went through in deciding to move from its location across from present Broadway Baptist to this site.Read More »“The Lord is Trying to Do Something Grand Through Us…Therefore We, God’s Servants, Arise and Build”
Dr. Cathy Corder has arranged the history of Capital Campaigns of the St. Stephen Presbyterian Church buildings present and past along the bulletin board outside… Read More »Raising the Roof: 1884 – 2012
