Celebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
Today the church commemorates the life and witness of St. James, Zebedee’s son, and brother to St. John. There is a good deal of confusion surrounding the figures who share the name James from the New Testament…
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We all serve and obey someone. Our claim to have no master only means that we are serving some hidden master, our lower selves, our selfish interests and the like…
Read moreHis voice had a terrible authority—not, said the people, like the teaching of the Pharisees—and a terrible beauty, unlike any sound or voice they had known, a sound that gathered them…
Read moreThis is the gospel of Jesus Christ: God is kind to the ungrateful and to the wicked. This is the Good News: God is good to the evil and gracious to the ungracious…
Read moreSalvation does not merely come to individuals… The Father seeks to redeem and restore the whole creation, which groans for the good working of His grace—just as in the beginning it was the whole creation, taken together, that God exalted as ‘very good’…
Read moreOur Gospel brings us a compelling picture of the mission of the Church, drawing all men to Christ in common obedience to his word. There is a beautiful and unexpected joy in the miraculous draught…
Read moreOne of the most difficult challenges to our faith is our apprehension and acceptance of the sheer scale of God’s goodness towards us…
Read moreThe Word of God, by Whom the world was made, comes to us, moved by the Father’s goodness, so that in His incarnate body He may confront death, and thereby change it…
Read moreHe says, “Love ye your enemies, and do good, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.” But we find it hard to love our family and friends, let alone our enemies!
Read moreThat ‘father of lies’, whose program of rebellion and falsehood has opposed our race from the beginning, tempting Eve with vain words in the garden, continues to advance his cause of an anti-God world governed only by its own godlessness…
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