Celebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
Today we celebrate not only that Christ is born for us, and that we are born again in him, but that he may be born in us. And we may well pray, “O holy child of Bethlehem, be born in us today,” that he may evermore dwell in us.
Read moreThere were shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. To them the angel comes. To them, first of all, the news that God himself has come to search for the lost sheep is given…
Read moreNow, everyone knows that Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus. Everyone knows that Jesus was born of Mary in Bethlehem. But what the Angel tells us and the Shepherds is news, Good News, Gospel. “Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.”
Read moreGod, the Creator of the Universe, put skin on, our flesh and blood, assumed our full human nature and lived among us. God did not just dress up like one of us for a day, he became human and lived and suffered and died as one of us, for all of us.
Read more“Judge therefore yourselves, brethren, that ye be not judged of the Lord.” I only want to add one emphasis to that wonderful Exhortation. Saint Paul would convince us this morning that we are incompetent to judge one another…
Read moreDo not pronounce judgment. That is the message that you and I, in this congregation, need to hear and to heed. Paul gives us three reasons why we are to suspend our judgment…
Read moreWe seem to swing back and forth, from a kind of crazed megalomania, to dreadfully tormented low self-esteem, unable to get it right… But who do we think we are? So often by our thoughts and words and deeds, we proclaim and we pretend that we are the one and only, the Lord…
Read moreIs there any echo of that sentiment in your heart and life? I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. Who is it, that can satisfy the longings of our hearts? What is it, that can quiet the storm inside?
Read moreThe second coming of Jesus Christ is meant to fill us not with anxiety, but finally with hope. But we must heed all of Jesus’ warnings, and especially that which is given to us today…
Read moreWe note how often this reversal of the order of contagion occurs in Jesus’ healing miracles. We assume that when a well person comes into contact with a sick person, the contagious disease passes from the sick to the well. But here the opposite occurs.
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