“Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things for which we are not worthy to ask, except through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”
The Book of Common Prayer
Tag Archives: Faith
Remembering How to Lead (MMOW8)
When we back our theology up to the beginnings of our faith origin stories we start with equality and mutuality as God intends. It was human behavior that brought about the discord between us. It was not God’s design that we compete for power or control of others.
Faithful Persistence
A sermon preached at St. Francis by the Lake Episcopal Church, Canyon Lake, Texas.The Lectionary readings for the nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost are here. When you hear this particular parable, what American proverb comes to your mind? … And when you hear “the squeaky wheel gets the grease” what does it mean? The one whoContinue reading “Faithful Persistence”
Being
A sermon preached at St. Francis by the Lake Episcopal Church, Canyon Lake, Texas.The lectionary readings for the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost are here. There are stories of archeologists who, while excavating a pyramid in Egypt, finding pots of honey that, after thousands of years, are still good. The pyramids, built as a supposedly eternalContinue reading “Being”
The Opposite of Faith
The Good News story from Lectionary readings for the Second Sunday of Easter is the same every year and it is a story that even if you don’t know the details you know the nickname taken from it, Doubting Thomas, that has given dear Thomas an undeserved bad reputation these past 2000+ years. So here’sContinue reading “The Opposite of Faith”
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