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HomeWorship CalendarPastoral 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…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral 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…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral 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. …

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral 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…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral 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…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral 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…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral 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…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral 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…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Lost Sheep, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930 1 St Peter 5:5b-11       St Luke 15:1-11   Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility towards one another… Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Invitation to the Great Banquet, Eugene Burnand c. 1900 1 St John 3:13-24       St Luke 14:16-24   A man once gave a great banquet and invited many. St Luke 14:16   These first few Sundays are an introduction to the rest…