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Easter III – Sorrow turned to Joy
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Celebrating the birth, Jan Steen, 1664 AD 1 Peter 2:11-17 St John 16:16-22 When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for…
Read MoreEaster Day – Resurrection Certainty
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio, 1602 AD Colossians 3:1- 7 St John 20:1-10 Alleluia! Christ is risen! Today in our Gospel we heard of the first moments, according to John, of the breaking in of a new reality in…
Read MoreMaundy Thursday – With desire have I desired
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet 1852-6 Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893 Presented by subscribers 1893 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N01394 1 Corinthians 11:17-end St Luke 23:1-49 With desire have I desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer. “A new commandment I give to you,…
Read MorePalm Sunday – Have this mind in you
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Philippians 2:5-11 St Matthew 21:1-11 St Matthew 27:1-54 “Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus …who, became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” It has been a tumultuous week in world politics – the…
Read MoreFifth Sunday in Lent – Inward Transformation
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Sacrifice of Isaac, Armenian Illuminated Gospel, c. 1455 Hebrews 9:11-15 St John 8:46-59 How much more shall the blood of Christ… purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Lent is a pilgrimage to Jerusalem with Jesus.…
Read MoreThird Sunday in Lent – Walking in Light
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Israelites Passing through the Wilderness, Preceded by the Pillar of Light, William West, 1845 Ephesians 5:1-14 St Luke 11:14-26 At one time you were darkness, now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. Our walk…
Read MoreSecond Sunday in Lent – Your Sanctification
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Christ and the Canaanite Woman, Juan de Flandes, c. 1500 AD 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 St Matthew 15:21-28 This is the will of God, your sanctification. In the season of Lent, we are on a pilgrimage with Jesus to Jerusalem. I…
Read MoreSecond Sunday in Epiphany – The Mystical Marriage
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Wedding at Cana – Nicolas Correa, 1696 AD Holy Baptism and Holy Communion Romans 12:6-16a St John 2:1-11 “The have no wine…” The season of Epiphany is about the manifestation of God, or the revealing Sunday by Sunday of who…
Read MoreSunday next before Advent – Christ our Prophet, Priest & King
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…
Read MoreTrinity 23 – Perfecting us Body and Soul
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…
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