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HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Triumphal Entry, Bondone Giotto, Padua, 1304-1306 AD St Matthew 21:1-13     Philippians 2:5-11    St Matthew 27:1-54   “Have this mind among yourselves, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Armenian Gospels Manuscript Illustration, the Sacrifice of Isaac, c. 1455 AD by Fr Jean Celestin Ngoma   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…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Ravensburger Schultzmantelmadonna, attr. to Michel Erhart, c. 1480 AD Galatians 4:26-5:1       St John 6:5-14   The Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.   Some might say that Lent is a season to be…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Jesus cast out a demon, fresco 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.   In our Lenten journey with Jesus towards Jerusalem and the…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Canaanite Woman, maybe Titian 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8       St Matthew 15:21-28   O woman, great is your faith: be it done for you as you desire! We are now into our second week of Lent, into a kind of wilderness if we…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Christ in the Wilderness, Ivan Kramskoy, 1872 AD 2 Corinthians 6:1-10       St Matthew 4:1-11   Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.   For those of you who are following the…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Healing of a Blind Man, Andrei Mironov, 2019 AD Corinthians 13:1-13       St Luke 18:31-43   Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem.    Here are some questions for each of you this morning: Who here wants a more profound spiritual relationship…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us The Sower, Pieter Breugel the Elder By Fr Jean Celestin Ngoma 2 Corinthians 11:19-31       St Luke 8:4-15   He who has ears, let him hear.   I like the “behind-the-scenes” content of movies because they can help reveal the chaotic process of…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us In the Vineyard, Jean Francois Millet, 1852-53 1 Corinthians 9:24-27       St Matthew 20:1-16   You go into the vineyard too…   Today we are making a shift in our church year.  We are turning our minds from Christmas and Epiphany seasons…

HomeWorship CalendarPastoral CarePrayer Daily Offices Lectio Divina Prayer MinistryTeachings Articles/News SermonsAbout Us LeadershipContact Us Christ and the Centurion (detail), Paolo Veronese, 1571 AD Romans 12:16-end       St Matthew 8:1-13   “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”   Epiphany season is a meditation on Christmas, on what it means that God has…