Year A Isaiah 49:1-7 Psalm 40:1-12 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 John 1:29-42 Behold the Lamb of God… who takes away the sin of the world… We find these words… or some variation of them… not just in today’s Gospel… but in the Gloria that we just sang… in The Great Litany… in some versions of the Angus Dei we...
Year A Isaiah 42:1-9 Psalm 29 Acts 10:34-43 Matthew 3:13-17 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… A sacrament is an outward and visible sign… of an inward spiritual grace… it’s the thing you see… which represents the bigger thing that’s going on under the surface… the Episcopal church holds to seven sacraments… confirmation… ...
Rev. Alexander Steward January 1, 2023 Luke 2:15-21 Grace and peace to you from our Triune God. Here we find ourselves on the doorstep of a new year. The possibilities lay out in front of us, ours to grasp and run with. There are challenges we have yet to face and even some we...
Happy New Year! At least to those whose new year begins on January 1, because it doesn’t really begin now for everyone. We all live with different ways of measuring things: years, time, distances and lengths, volumes, temperatures, etc. For example, there are six principal calendars in current use — which replicate astronomical cycles...
Year A Isaiah 52:7-10 Psalm 98 Hebrews 1:1-4 John 1:1-14 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… In the beginning was the Word… and the Word was with God… and the Word was God… and the Word became flesh and lived among us… these words from John’s Prologue are among my favorites in scripture… ...