St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church, Matthews, NC 28105
St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church, Matthews, NC
Septuagesima 3 weeks before lent – Gospel reading on the workers in the vineyard – unfair?
Last week we had the “self-manifestation” of Jesus when he was twelve years old, as he stayed several days in the Temple listening to / and asking questions of the “doctors” of the Temple (the teachers) and we are told they were astonished at his understanding and questions. During advent through now we have had…
Ash Wednesday is this week, the beginning the Lenten Season for 2019. Last week Fr. George asked how two people can hear the same thing and yet receive two different messages, as well he spoke of hardened hearts and of dirt that is good ground, and that of bad. In today’s Collect we beseech that…
The parable of the Pharisee and tax-collector is about two men praying. Much can be said about Christian prayer. The main emphasis today is on the mental and spiritual attitudes for prayer- and by extension, about attitudes for all of life. Like the two sons in the Parable of the Prodigal Son two weeks ago,…
Sermon Trinity 7 2019 Trinity 7 2019 Fr. Michael Cawthon Truth is what we seek but can we handle the Truth? We ask God this morning in the Collect: to increase in us “True Religion”…. In the Epistle we read that we have all – in the past “Yielded our “members” servants to uncleanness” But…
Sermon Preached on the Twenty-Third Sunday after Trinity, November 12, 2023, at St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church on the Gospel Lesson: Matthew xxii. 15ff “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the…
Trinity I 3 June 2018 I John 4:7- 21 St. Luke 16:19-31 Sermon Notes by the Rev. Dennis Washburn, Ph.D. Many human beings over the millennia have talked and sung about love. Especially since the late 1960’s, popular culture has included a lot of talking and singing about love. A…
