You're perhaps staring in baffled, slack-jawed consternation as our country descends into banana republicdom, with all the risks therein. Or maybe you're wondering why Texas is wet and freezing, like Aberystwyth in July.
Whatever the case, here's something different, a sermon for the first Sunday of Advent in the form of the season's governing Collect:
ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen.
And for all those who like to say the Divine Office from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, and even for those who don't, here's a link.
Say your prayers, kids, and sanctify the day. It's important.
God bless,
LSP
We need more light warriors...
ReplyDeletePray for Trump and the Nation while you're at it.
ReplyDeleteJust had to reach out to you . Here in what I had thought was wild independent Oklahoma our local First Baptist Church decided to go full covidiot and mandate everyone must have a face diaper . I do not understand why the church has decided to allow a spirit of fear to rule the day when scripture condemns allowing fear to guide you. In the early fall I even went to the pastor because my heart was rent over this subject and prayed with him psalms 91. If the Lord has given you some insight please divulge. I don't care if you were 12 foot tall or a pestilence that flies through the noonday I ain't to be fearful.
ReplyDeleteAin't that the truth, Brig.
ReplyDeleteEd, I sure do.
ReplyDeleteOk, it's weird, but a lot of churches have really bought into it, their people are genuinely afraid they'll die, and the pastor goes along with them. After all, they pay his stipend... Saying that, he might think the same.
ReplyDeleteWhy do they think this? It'd be interesting to know how many watch MSM news, to say nothing of the rampant secularism in all our denoms. So I'd suggest plain old fashioned faithlessness. Hey, the same sort of people presided over the abolition of prayer in schools, Roe v. Wade, and gay marriage without so much as a whimper. So why act differently now? They're secularists who go to church.
Here in the missions we shut down for two weeks, noticed no one was dying and reopened. No one wears the stupid made in China masks and guess what, no one's gotten sick. Thank God for that.
I haven't owned, or watched, a television in years. I attribute that to my peace of mind.
ReplyDeleteWSF, I cut the cable 12 years ago and haven't missed that garbage for a second. Wish I'd done it sooner, would've saved some money.
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