Sermon: Becoming True Children of Light. “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light.”[Ephesians 5:8] How do we know if something is an act of God or not? After all, it is not as if God signs all His messages. Read more…
Sermon: Withstanding the Onslaught “And they said, ‘What is that to us? see thou to that.’” [Matthew 27:4b] There was a priest in a distant parish that had a wife who was well known for her charitable impulses. She would help anyone in need and did it with great kindness Read more…
Sermon: Being the True Church of Christ. “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” [St. John 3:17] Last Friday night I was not here for Evensong because I had the great joy of performing a Read more…
Sermon: Arise, and Be Not Afraid. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Read more…
Sermon: Preparing for a Holy and Fulfilling Lent. AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, “Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, ‘Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.’” [Leviticus 19:1-2] Today is the start of the Read more…
Sermon: Acting Out of Love and Not Guilt. “He hath set fire and water before thee: stretch forth thy hand unto whether thou wilt.” [Ecclesiasticus 15:16] I remember reading many years ago that, when someone from the old Soviet Union immigrated to the United States, they had a very hard Read more…
Sermon: Gaining an Incomparable Joy. “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” [Micah 6:8] Have you ever wondered why, as a religion becomes older, legalism Read more…
Sermon: Proclaiming Christ as the Lamb of God. “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith, ‘Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.’” [John 1:29] It is my belief that no one, or at least very few people, come to Christ Read more…
Sermon: Blessed Is He That Cometh in the Name of the LORD. “As your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have been now the Read more…
Sermon: The Best Christmas Gift And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth. [St. John 1:14] In the Sunday Mercury News, they have a magazine called USA Weekend. Read more…