Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, who is, and who was, and who is to come. Amen. Today’s special Procession takes us all the way through the Advent season, covering all its themes, in a single service. You could call it a Catechism, an Outline […]
Sermon Topic: Judgment
Getting our Just Deserts
I don’t own a car anymore, and I don’t get out on the highways around New York like I used to be able to do when I lived in Tennessee so I don’t know if y’all have the series of billboards that are seen with some regularity down south. They purport to be pithy sayings […]
From Thence He Shall Come to Judge the Quick and the Dead
Today we come to the fulfilment of Christ’s mission to redeem the world in the last of the statements in the Creed about Jesus Christ. The Coming of Christ is threefold. He has come; he is coming; and he will come. He has come in his first coming at the Nativity, when he comes in […]
A Sermon for Advent
I’ve been at Saint Thomas long enough now to have learned a few things, and one of the things I have learned is that you can’t spend much time in this church without becoming just a bit of an anglophile. And once you become an anglophile, eventually you begin wondering what it might be like […]
Get Rich Quick -- for God!
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. Before we get to today’s Gospel, let’s see what comes before it. It is all in Saint Luke’s 12th chapter. Jesus is on his way up to Jerusalem to face what he knows will be his Passion and Death, […]
Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell, and a Very Merry Christmas to You
In the Name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost. Amen. Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. And a Merry Christmas to you! Advent’s warning of the Last Things comes to us starkly in this morning’s reading from the Second Epistle of Peter, an encyclical letter with a message addressed to […]
