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Trinity 22 – Forgiveness: The Cleansing of Memory
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…
Read MoreTrinity 20 – Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Parable of King who arranged a Marriage Feast for his Son, Decani Monastery, c. 1348 (Hieronder staat een Nederlandse vertaling van de preek) Ephesians 5:15-21 St Matthew 22:1-14 The LORD preserves all who love him, but all the wicked…
Read MoreTrinity 17 – The Bands of Pride
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,…
Read MoreTrinity 16 – I say to you, Arise!
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…
Read MoreTrinity 15 – Behold the Lillies!
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…
Read MoreAscension Chevetogne Retreat
HomeWorshipPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us 6pm Friday 27 September to 2pm Sunday 29 September We offer our first weekend retreat together at the beautiful Chevetogne Monastery in Belgium. Its purpose is threefold: a retreat from busy-ness to have time for rest, for silence, and recreation by God…
Read MoreTrinity 9 – Temperance a fruit of the Spirit
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 Good morning, Ascension Church! It is a great privilege to preach here this morning. For those of you who don’t know me; my name is…
Read MoreTrinity 6 – A Higher Way than Wrath
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. …
Read MoreTrinity 4 – Vainglory or True Glory?
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…
Read MoreTrinity 2 – Fear of God is good
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…
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