Guest Homily by John Mack, our Seminarian
Our 2020 Lenten Devotional, The Grace of God by our own Lillie Ammann, can be downloaded here.
We begin a new Pre-Lenten and Lenten Christian Education series on the Book of Judges by our resident Old Testament and Biblical Languages Scholar, Madison Mack. The first class discusses the background, context, and introduction to the Book of Judges.
Texts: Matthew 20:1-16, 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Today is Septuagesima Sunday, the beginning of the traditional “pre-Lent” season. If your background is in the Anglican/Episcopal or Roman Catholic circles whose liturgies came after Vatican II, you may be scratching your head at these “gesima” Sundays. After all, folks are pretty familiar with the penitential season of…
An introducing to the discipline of fasting from the perspective of classical Anglicanism and the historic Books of Common Prayer. The Article from the St. Augustine Prayer Book on Fasting can be found here.
Good Friday April 19, 2019 Collect For Good Friday “Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy…
One of my favorite passages of Scripture is the Road to Emmaus from Luke 24, in which our Lord appears incognito to two disciples, “and beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.” I’ve often wished that St. Luke would have preserved our Lord’s…
“There is no holiness without warfare” Bishop J.C. Ryle We will once again be brought face to face this Holy Week with the enormity of our sins, the cost of our redemption, and the worst conflict with Satan and the flesh that our Lord Jesus faced and endured in Gethsemane and on the Cross in…
Text: John 8 Today is the fifth Sunday in Lent, which has been known as “Passion Sunday” in the Western Church for many centuries. When we think of passion nowadays, we usually think of that for which we have strong feelings or affection, something we really care about. Someone might say that they have a…
April 3, 2019 Lent “We may depend upon it—that knowledge of Christ, obedience to Christ, and the fruits of the Spirit—are the only tests by which God weighs and measures any Church. If these are absent, He cares nothing for beautiful buildings, fine singing, and a pompous ceremonial.” Bishop J. C. Ryle The grace of our Lord…