The Collect. LORD, we beseech thee, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil; and with pure hearts and minds to follow thee, the only God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. This Collect is a fitting preface to the Gospel text for this Sunday of [...]
Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide Communion Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday Report Today we celebrated the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday. On Point Someone asked, where do the quotes come from? The answer is from the people who uttered them. But, how did you find them? Oh, that. Some from Bishop Jerry, many [...]
SERMON NOTES FOR SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, 23 September 2018 Anno Domini The Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide THE SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. The Collect. LORD, we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. [...]
“Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the [...]
FIFTY-SEVEN CENTS THAT BUILT A CHURCH, a Devotion for 20 September 20, 2018 Anno Domini The Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide “And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she [...]
FROM EVERY STORMY WIND THAT BLOWS (#421), a Hymn Devotion for 18 September 2018 Anno Domini, The Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide “As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.” Proverbs 10:25 (All scripture quoted is from the king James Version) “Behold, a whirlwind of the [...]
DEW OF HEAVEN, a Devotion for 19 September 2018 Anno Domini, the Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide (this devotion was Mrs. Betty Hoffman’s favorite, published about 16 years ago) “These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the [...]
Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide Communion Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday Report Today we celebrated the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday. On Point Someone asked, where do the quotes come from? The answer is from the people who uttered them. But, how did you find them? Oh, that. Some from Bishop Jerry, many from Rev Bryan [...]
PRAYER OF COLLECT O LORD, we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Church needs the continual pity of the Lord in the same way we, [...]
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, from an Article in Jones 5th Grade Reader, 14 September 2018 Anno Domini The Anglican Orthodox Church Worldwide Some may scoff at the presentation of material from fifth grade readers which I share often; but I believe these stories and values are worth remembering – more so, worth repeating and re-instituting in our [...]