by David Ould | Dec 24, 2024 | Advent, Christmas, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
This past Sunday evening we had our Nine Lessons and Carols at St John’s Anglican Cathedral Parramatta. I’m always keen for us to have a short talk or homily but also acutely aware that so often guests automatically switch off as the preacher gets up. So...
by Matt Kennedy | Dec 20, 2024 | Advent, Anglicans, Bible Study, Christmas, Go to Church, Podcast, The Gospel
Matt, Jady, and Nick are on Christmas Break. Over the next three weeks, in lieu of new episodes, we’ll post an Advent sermon, a Christmas sermon, and an Epiphany sermon. This week, here’s an Advent sermon from Nick on Luke 3:7-18. Need more Stand Firm?...
by Anne Kennedy | Dec 17, 2023 | Advent, Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Jesus
Photo by Jon Carlson on Unsplash [Still struggling with Grammerly–please accept yet another post replete with spelling and grammatical errors that I will correct someday.] Protestia promised all his followers a few days ago that they would really hate this post...
by Anne Kennedy | Dec 3, 2023 | Advent, Anglicans, Church Year
Photo by frank mckenna on Unsplash I’ve noticed a lot of different kinds of Christians talking about Advent in the last week who, I’m pretty sure, weren’t contemplating such mysteries about ten years ago. It seems like a sort of social contagion, of...
by Mark Marshall | Dec 7, 2022 | Advent, Christmas, Oppression, U.S. Politics
Amidst all the hurrying and scurrying and merchandising of December, it is too easy to forget that Advent should be about preparing for the Second Advent of Christ along with preparing to celebrate rightly His First Advent at Christmas. A message that we forget even...
by Anne Kennedy | Nov 18, 2022 | Advent, Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise
Oh well, another week went by and I didn’t blog. It seems I have reached that stage of life where all I do is make promises and then don’t keep them. I should have gone into politics, having already developed all the necessary habits. Still, it’s Friday, so I can...
