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A ND  after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:  2  For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.  3  And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.  4  And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.  5  And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great .   (Revelation 19:1-5)                 This is the day we observe following Reformation Day. From a spiritual point of view, our genealogy is an important matter to consider. All Saints Day helps t...

A  GLORIOUS  high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.  13  O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.  (Jeremiah 17:12-13)               The contrast between Reformation Day (October 31) and All Hallows Eve (Halloween) could not be more vivid. The Church had forgotten its First Love over the course of centuries following the Apostolic Age. Many manmade traditions and fallacies had taken on the nature of Holy Scripture which they weren’t. The sanctuary had been defiled as was the Temple in the days our Lord cleansed it and chased out the merchants and money-changers.               The Church had rotted from the head down when Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five th...

Happy Twentieth Sunday after Trinity! The AOC Sunday Report can be downloaded  RIGHT HERE ! We have really great sermons today from Bishop Jerry and Revs Jack and Bryan. Each one of them is considerably different and each one is really good.    Rev Jack brings the Propers together today, his sermon can be viewed on video here ->  https://youtu.be/STLJ3NI7128 .  The Collect, Epistle and Gospel tie together, laying out, detailing and reinforcing the same message ultimately. We have to be ready and willing to listen to God, and walk with God, and act with the Holy Spirit in us, in order to have the right “clothes” to enter into the kingdom of heaven.     Heaven is      at the end of an uphill trail. The easy downhill trail does not lead to the summit.     The time is now, not tomorrow. The time has come, indeed. How will you ACT?     The time to act is NOW. Will you act? For whom will you act? Will you count the cost ...

Rev Jack brings the Propers together today.    His sermon is below the propers and can be viewed on video here ->  https://youtu.be/STLJ3NI7128     Rev Jack brings the Propers together today.   The Collect, Epistle and Gospel tie together, laying out, detailing and reinforcing the same message ultimately. We have to be ready and willing to listen to God, and walk with God, and act with the Holy Spirit in us, in order to have the right “clothes” to enter into the kingdom of heaven.  Heaven is   at the end of an uphill trail. The easy downhill trail does not lead to the summit.  The time is now, not tomorrow. The time has come, indeed. How will you ACT?  The time to act is NOW. Will you act? For whom will you act? Will you count the cost before you act?  Action, not diction, is what counts. It is by your actions you are known.  Be of God - Live of God - Act of God The Propers for today are fo...

  Twentieth Sunday after Trinity   The Collect.   O  ALMIGHTY  and most merciful God, of thy bountiful goodness keep us, we beseech thee, from all things that may hurt us; that we, being ready both in body and soul, may cheerfully accomplish those things which thou commandest; through Jesus Christ our Lord.   Amen .    The Holy Gospel Matt 22:1-14   A ND Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,  2   The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,  3  And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.  4  Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.  5  But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:...

   Twentieth Sunday after Trinity   The Collect.   O  ALMIGHTY  and most merciful God, of thy bountiful goodness keep us, we beseech thee, from all things that may hurt us; that we, being ready both in body and soul, may cheerfully accomplish those things which thou commandest; through Jesus Christ our Lord.   Amen .   N OW  the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.   18   But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord .  (2 Cor 3:17-18)   F OR  God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind .  (2 Tim 1:7)               Certainly, God is full of goodness for He is all-in-all, and there is no imperfection our impurity in Him. Therefore, His goodness is bountif...

Elihu Vedder's Picture on display in New York (1894) L ET  both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to bum them: but gather the wheat into my barn .  (Matthew 13:30)   In the autumn 1894 a painting by Elihu Vedder was exhibited in New York City, which showed, as few modern works of art do, the innermost fact in the problem of the world's moral life, in want of solution. The painter called his parable of life, as it was put on the large canvas, ‘ The Devil Sowing Tares .'    The whole atmosphere was dark, mysterious, and lowering, set in a light that struck the observer with awe, as in the presence of some dread problem going on beneath those portentous clouds. Before him was a bare and rock-paved slope, curving upward, like another Golgotha, to an upright post, at the base of which the letters INRI plainly intimated that it was the foot of the cross, t...

T HE  kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:   25  But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares [1]  among the wheat, and went his way.   26  But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.   27  So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?     28  He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?   29  But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.   30  Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.    (Matt 13:24-30)        ...