Posts by David Phillips

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Romans 8:12-17       St Matthew 7:15-21   We are the children of God.  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ…  [Rom 8:16-17]   At Ascension, in five of the past six Sundays and today, we are looking at…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 Peter 3. 8-15a       Luke 5:1-11 Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing; nevertheless, at your word I will let down the net. And when they had done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes. [Lk 5:5-6]…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us  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]   In this early part of Trinity season we are continuing our investigation of the passions of our…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 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 may exalt you   In the next 7 weeks,…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 John 3:13-end       St Luke 14:16-24   The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.  Pr 9:10 Perfect love casts out fear.  1 Jn 4:18 The fear of the Lord is clean, and endures forever.  Ps 19:9   Faith in…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 St John 4:7-end       St Luke 16:19-end   Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us. [1 St John 4:8-10]   We have entered into Trinity season, the longest season of the Christian year.  The liturgical colour…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Revelation 4:1-11       St John 3:1-15   “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”   We celebrate today that God has been revealed to us by Jesus as a Trinity – the Father, the…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Acts 2:1-11     John 14:15-27   Suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind!   Fifty days ago that we celebrated Jesus’ Resurrection on Easter.  We are like the Apostles, gathered in a room with others, on this fiftieth…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 1 Peter 4:7-10      John 15:26-16:4   God is gone up with a merry noise, the Lord with the sound of the trump! O sing praises, sing praises unto our God; … sing ye praises with understanding!   This morning in the Church…

HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us St James 1:22-27     St John 16:23-33   “Whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. … ask and you will receive, that your joy may be full. ”   Today is the Fifth Sunday after…