The point of this gospel story is that Jesus was always God; there never was a time when he was not the divine Son of the divine Father. Here he is: a boy of twelve, going with his parents Mary and Joseph to Jerusalem for the annual festival of the Passover. But he stays behind, […]
Sermon Topic: God the Father
Hallowed be thy Name
I was first taught the Lord’s Prayer sometime in September 1973 when I began first grade at St. Bernard’s School up on Ninety-eighth Street. It would not be an outrageous overstatement for me to claim that I have said that prayer almost every day during the intervening thirty nine years. I wear it as part […]
The Lord Speaks to Job and to Us
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. “Where is the way where light dwelleth? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof…that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?” This is, together with many other mysteries of the creation, the Lord’s answer to […]
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
When we talk about Our Daily Bread, first, we must take note that there is a provision made for us in creation. Genesis records that in the Garden of Eden, God gave us all manner of herb and tree and fruit and seed to be food for us. (Gn 1.29) Later, after man is expelled […]
Our Father, who art in heaven
When we pray to God, we sometimes go about it as if God were a target a long way off. We lob our prayers at this target like artillerymen laying down a barrage. When we pray alone we hope that our prayer wings its way to our target and strikes home. If we are bold […]
Father
In the name of God: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen. There’s no doubt that the Lord’s Prayer is the normative prayer for Christian people; it’s the prayer that we recite at just about every worship service I can think of. If Christians somewhere in the world right now are praying, it’s quite likely that […]
The Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth
When thou saidst, seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. Psalm 27.8 As a continuation of our series on the Apostle’s Creed, it is my task tonight to take up the line, “The Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth” and to do so we must rouse […]
Three Persons in One God
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen There, I just invoked the Name of the mystery we celebrate today, the Holy and Undivided Trinity of God. Preachers attempting to explain the Holy Trinity have often tied themselves up in knots, and their congregations with them. Yours […]
The Trinity: The God of Jesus
All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he [the Spirit] will take what is mine and declare it to you. In the Name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. Almost every sermon here follows the old custom invoking the full name of God as […]
The Strong Name of the Trinity
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. I have just invoked Name of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, the Name into which each one of us has been baptized, the Three Persons Whose Names come to us from the lips of our Lord Jesus Christ himself. […]
