Saint Paul was a man of tremendous ambition. We have a museum-quality idea of saints that preserves them for history in a sort of cotton wool halo of meek-and-mild perfection.…
The Christian faith is a seemingly simple and yet remarkably difficult thing. It is easy to say what it is about; it is about love, the idea that God is…
The lessons for this day are found at this link. Text: Matthew 11:19b: “Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.” Saint Paul has many distinctions, but in today’s epistle reading…
The lessons appointed for this day may be found at this link. Text: Romans 6:12: “Do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their…
Text: Psalm 42:5: Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation…
Text: Romans 4:5: “...to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness.” Just so there is no confusion, I’ll say at the…
Text: I Corinthians 15:8: “Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.” Timing is everything. We are taught this from a very early age. Students…
Text: Galatians 1:15–16: “But when God, who had set me apart before I was born and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that…