October 31 of this year will mark the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s posting of “95 theses” (that is, 95 arguments he wished to defend in public debate) on the church bulletin board at Wittenberg, Germany, where he was a professor of Biblical studies. Luther criticized the way the Church (based in Rome) was selling … [Read more…]
What does God want to give you? God wants to reconcile me to himself, to free me from captivity to sin, to fill me with knowledge of him, to make me a citizen of his Kingdom, and to enable me to worship, serve, and glorify him now and forever. [From the 2014 ACNA Catechism, Question … [Read more…]
Our dialogue with Anaiah, an educated Jew from the 500’s B.C., continues. Anaiah: We have been talking about how God has chosen to bless all the families of the earth not by a supernatural display but through the modest, even unknown figure of Abraham. There is an important point here. Suppose you are a botanist … [Read more…]
This Sunday at Noon after the service, bring your animals for a blessing.
Join us this Sunday October 1, 2017 at Noon for a service of Pet Blessings. We do this in recognition of St. Francis and the great honor we have as caretakers and stewards of our animal companions. We will pray over and bless each animal. If weather is good, we’ll gather outside. If weather is … [Read more…]
Starting on Sunday, September 24, at 9:10 am (between our two liturgies) St. Barnabas will hold a class to examine the Catechism published by the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). A catechism is a summary of basic Christian belief and practice intended for use in teaching those fundamentals to new and developing Christians (hence … [Read more…]
Our time machine has brought us together with Anaiah, an educated Jew from the 500’s B.C. He has learned our language and something of our culture and understands that we want to find out what the Hebrew sacred writings say about God’s communications with human beings. Anaiah suggests that we begin with Abraham. St. Barnabas … [Read more…]
We have resolved to look at the Bible, starting with the Old Testament, to see whether it provides evidence that the creator of our ordered and moral universe has communicated with human beings. Some may be skeptical that writers of well over two thousand years ago, lacking modern science and technology, could provide any useful … [Read more…]
Some people read a New Testament passage like Mark 15:33, which says that “darkness came over the whole land” for three hours during the crucifixion of Jesus, and wonder if maybe it describes a solar eclipse. The answer is no, for three sufficient reasons. No total eclipse was visible in Judea at the time of … [Read more…]
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