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HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Mystical Lamb (detail), Ghent altarpiece, Hubert and Jan van Eyck, 1432 Jeremiah 23:5-8       St John 6:5-14   Jesus lifted up his eyes, and saw a large crowd coming towards him… …And he said, “Have the people sit down.”   Today we…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Tribute Money, Titian, c. 1543–1568 Philippians 3:17-21       St Matthew 22:15-22   For our citizenship is in heaven; and from it we await a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.   In the Trinity season we are continually climbing a ladder…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, unknown painter, 16th century Philippians 1:3-11       St Matthew 18:21-35   It is my prayer that your love may abound more and more. [Philippians 1:9]   Our journey in Trinity season into the kingdom of heaven is near…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Christ heals man with dropsy, French Medieval manuscript Ephesians 4:1-6       St. Luke 14:1-11   “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast… go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say unto you,…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Raising of the Son of the Widow of Nain (detail), Lucas Cranach the Younger, 1569 Ephesians 3:13-21       St. Luke 7:11-17   That you might be filled with all the fullness of God!   For every one of us here I…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Galatians 5:25-6:10       St Matthew 6:24-34   Behold the lilies of the field…   In this season of Trinity we are moving ever more deeply to understand our souls and to understand them in the light of God’s promises that we are inheritors…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The First Mourning (Cain and Abel), William-Adolphe Boughereau, 1888 Romans 6:3-11       St Matthew 5:20-26   You have heard that it was said by them of old time, You shall not kill; and whoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgement. …

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 consider the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed in us.  [Rom 8:20]   The…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 John 3:13-24       St Luke 14:16-24   The fear of the Lord is clean, and endures forever.  Ps 19:9   I have spoken to you about how these first few Sundays are an introduction to the rest of the Trinity season, which…