Church Year Archives

About Herod

by Mark Marshall | Dec 28, 2024 | Apostasy, Bible Study, Christmas, Church Year, Eschatology, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Jesus, Sexuality, Woke Church

Today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents in the season of Christmas. Yes, it’s the twelve day Christmas season until Epiphany on January 6th, and don’t you forget it!Anyway, most of you know the story of how Herod received the news of Christ’s birth. It was not like...

#238: The Dawn of Redeeming Grace: A Sermon by Jady Koch

by Matt Kennedy | Dec 27, 2024 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Christmas, Church Year, Go to Church, Jesus, Podcast, The Gospel

Matt, Jady, and Nick are on Christmas Break. For three weeks, in lieu of new episodes, we’ll post an Advent sermon, a Christmas sermon, and an Epiphany sermon. This week, here’s a Christmas sermon from Jady on John 1:1-18. Need more Stand Firm? Subscribe...

Hope and Glory

by Anne Kennedy | Jun 9, 2024 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Theological Liberalism

Have missed my usual Sunday blog over the last few weeks, but almost every weekend has had me dashing in so many directions that something had to give. And honestly, I think I’ve blogged steadily through the lectionary to its full measure–is that like nine...

Only God Can Help Us Now

by Anne Kennedy | May 19, 2024 | Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church

Rabula Gospels Folio Pentecost After much prodding by Matt, I went over and watched the whole speech by the famous football player at Benedictine College. And then I made the mistake of watching this humiliating moment in American politics. The only thing to two...

The World and Kevin

by Anne Kennedy | May 12, 2024 | Anglicans, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, The Gospel

Photo by Paul Zoetemeijer on Unsplash It’s Mother’s Day today, in case you live under a rock or somewhere, and it’s also, for many of us, Fauxcension (Feast of the Ascension transferred to Sunday), not to mention the usual lections appointed for the...

If You Love Me

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 28, 2024 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Jesus

Photo by Beatrice Zinetti on Unsplash I am excessively distracted by Twitter. There are so many crazy things going on. Kevin M Young, for example, is busily arguing that the Tax Collectors and Prostitutes who came into the Kingdom of Heaven stayed that way. Of course,...