Another Garden

As you may know, this Sunday will be my last at St. Patrick.  After over a year of planning (and lots of dreaming before that!), Erika, Joaquin and I will be taking the Henson Road Show south, to the Austin, TX, area. It has been an unspeakable joy to have served as one of your pastors for the last decade, and a special delight of mine has been getting to preach the gospel from the pulpit whenever the opportunity has arisen. When it became evident that we would be delayed a bit from our planned "last day" of July 20th, Jim asked me to plan on preaching August 10th, as he will be out of town. Neither one of us knew this would be my last Lord's Day at St. Patrick (talk about ironic--Jim wasn't here for my first Sunday, and he won't be here for my last!). So, I'm thankful it worked out that my last Sunday would be a "preaching Sunday" as well.What makes me even more excited is the text we'll be looking at--it is one of my favorite in all of Scripture: Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. There is perhaps no event in Jesus' ministry that highlights who he is and why he came better than those desperate hours above the Kidron Valley one spring night all those years ago.  If you truly understand and trust that at Gethsemane, Jesus was undoing the damage that was done in another Garden long, long ago, it will change your life forever.I hope you'll join us this Sunday as we look at Another Garden, in our continuing series, The Story of God. Grace & Peace,Brian