Posts by David Phillips

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us In the Vineyard, Jean Francois Millet, 1852-53 1 Corinthians 9:24-27       St Matthew 20:1-16   You go into the vineyard too…   Today we are making a shift in our church year.  We are turning our minds from Christmas and Epiphany seasons…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Christ and the Centurion (detail), Paolo Veronese, 1571 AD Romans 12:16-end       St Matthew 8:1-13   “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”   Epiphany season is a meditation on Christmas, on what it means that God has…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Bride with Blue Face, Marc Chagall, 1932 Romans 12:6-16a       St John 2:1-11   And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; …. And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.   The readings in…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Twelve Year Old Jesus in front of the Scribes – Rembrandt c. 1655 Romans 12:1-5      St Luke 2:41-end   After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Nativity, Hugo van der Goes, between 1476-1479 AD 2 Corinthians 8:9       St John 1:14-18   No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.   Our…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Nativity, visit of Magi, Salzburg Museum, Medieval Hebrews 1:1-12       St John 1:1-14   “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.”   We begin with a Sonnet for Christmas by Malcolm Guite: It’s getting darker, darker all the time…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Beheading of John the Baptist, Massimo Stanzione, 1634 1 Corinthians 4:1-5       St Matthew 11:2-10   This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.   We speak of this season of…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Last Judgement, John Martin, 1854 AD Romans 15:4-13       St Luke 21:25-33   The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Cleansing of the Temple, Mosaic at Monreale Sicily, 12-13th century Romans 13:8-14      St Matthew 21:1-13   Now it is high time to awake out of sleep…   Today we begin the new Christian year with the season of Advent. Advent…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Jesus multiplies loaves, Outer Narthex Mosaic at Chora, Instanbul, 14th century Jeremiah 23:5-8       St John 6:5-14 Jesus said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. Today we are once again at the end of the Church…