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HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Wedding Feast, John Everett Millais, 1864 Ephesians 5:15-21       St Matthew 22:1-14   Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding-garment?   We are reflecting in these last weeks of Trinity season on the highest stage of the Christian life…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Communion of the Apostles, Justus van Gent, 1467-1474 Ephesians 4:23-28       St Matthew 9:1-8   Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.   These final Sundays in Trinity season are about the heights of our sanctification – union with…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Communion of the Apostles, James Tissot, 1886 1 Corinthians 1:4-8       St Matthew 22:34-46   And the second is like it…   As we make our way through Trinity season, God’s Word, the two readings we are given every Sunday, are calling…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Galatians 5:25-6:10       St Matthew 6:24-34 Look at the birds of the air… Look at the lilies of the field…   In these Sundays in Trinity season there seems to be a looping back again and again as we ascend in our readings…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Good Samaritan, Eugène Delacroix, 1849 Galatians 3:16-22       St Luke 10:23b-37   “Do this, and you will live.”   We are at the midpoint in Trinity season today – halfway in our reflections on our ascent into the life of God.  And…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Healing of a Deaf-Mute, Manuscript, Ottheinrich Bible, 1425-30 2 Corinthians 3:4-9       St Mark 7:31-37   Looking up to heaven, Jesus sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha”, that is, “Be opened.” And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 Corinthians 15:1-11       St Luke 18:9-14   Thus saith the high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, whose Name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, And with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit. [Isaiah 57:15a]…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Flevit super illam (He wept over it), Enrique Simonet, 1892 1 Corinthians 12:1-11       St Luke 19:41-47a   My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.   We are ascending into the life of…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Parable of the Unjust Steward, Marinus van Reymerswales, c. 1540 1 Corinthians 10:1-13       St Luke 16:1-9   Make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous wealth; so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings. [St Luke 16:9]…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Blind Leading the Blind, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568 Romans 8.18-23       St Luke 6.36-42   I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us.  [KJV Rom 8:20]…