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January 19, 2025 Service

This morning is the beginning of a series of Sundays that will focus on the important topic of Christian stewardship. It’s a subject that is little understood, misunderstood, or not understood by many, and yet stewardship is part of the very fabric of our lives as people, especially as people of God, as people who’ve been reborn by the power of the…

December 22, 2024 Service

Therefore, the contrast between old and new—shadows and image—lies not in the inability of the rites of old but in their having come to an end with the incarnation of Christ. This sermon to the Hebrews both warns against the temptation to return to these (now) empty rites and ceremonies and encourages those who gather (now) around Jesus in the congregation of…

December 15, 2024 Service

Joy comes subtly in the Collect as the darkness of our hearts is lightened by the gracious visitation of our Lord. Similarly, though joy frames the Introit with its antiphon (Phil 4:4), the Introit psalm itself hints at the joy concealed in the Gospel: “The Lord sets the prisoners free; the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up…

December 8, 2024 Service

Philippi was the first church plant by the apostle Paul in Europe. Paul peppers his letter to the Philippians with a call to arms, entreating the Philippians to stand firm in the faith that had been implanted by the apostle and which he says was being completed by God himself. As Paul notes elsewhere in the epistle, “It is God who works…

December 1, 2024

Philippi was the first church plant by the apostle Paul in Europe. Paul peppers his letter to the Philippians with a call to arms, entreating the Philippians to stand firm in the faith that had been implanted by the apostle and which he says was being completed by God himself. As Paul notes elsewhere in the epistle, “It is God who works…

November 24, 2024 Service

This Sunday culminates the church half of the church year; Advent, beginning next Sunday, will begin the Lord’s half of the new church year. We think of Christ as the King of kings and Lord of lords, the Messiah, the ruler of all things. Christ’s reign will culminate in the full establishment of the kingdom of the Messiah in eternity. Christ came…