August 3, 2021 125 Presiding Bishop’s Address – APA Synod 2021 Our theme for this year’s Synod is “Changing Leadership, Still Changeless Faith.” To our bishops, priests, deacons, and deaconesses, all lay delegates and invited guests and observers and visitors, we extend a warm and cordial welcome to Atlanta, Georgia, and the 10th Synod of…

‘CONTINUAL GROWTH IN THY LOVE AND SERVICE…’ February 10th, 2022 by The Most Reverend Chandler Holder Jones, SSC In the 1928 American Prayer Book Eucharist, the Prayer for the Whole State of Christ’s Church contains this phrase of intercession for the Dead, which petition is absolutely unique to the revised American liturgy: ‘And we also…

Prelude                  Come, Ye Thankful People, Come                            Flor Peeters Offertory                Nun danket alle Gott                      G. F. Kauffmann Postlude                 St. George’s Windsor                     F. Cunningham Woods The Recessional Hymn was written in 1844 by Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury as a hymn for the English Harvest…

ON THE  STORY OF THE BIBLE The Rev’d. Allen Fisher   Introduction to Salvation History The Bible records the LORD God’s Mission of Love. All of the Bible flows as one Story. This story is the account of the Mission of God: The story of a loving God creating, redeeming, and restoring a family that…

Musical Notes June 30, 2019 Trinity 2 Prelude                                Partita on “Ebenezer”                    John A. Behnke Theme – Pedal Solo – Bicinium – The Cross The recessional hymn (#519) is from an 1845 poem, “The Present Crisis,” by the American poet James Russell Lowell. It was first included in the 1916 edition of The Hymnal. The hymn tune…