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†   If a moral is to be learned from today’s Gospel Lesson from the narrative of the raising of the dead son of the widow of Nain, it must be…

†   The theme of this Trinity XV week concerns the frailty of man and our dependence upon GOD to hold us up. Our Collect frames Holy Mother Church’s thematic focus…

†   How should we read the Holy Scriptures? I mean, with what lens of interpretation, or to use a fancy seminary word, what hermeneutical style should we use? Undoubtedly, some…

†   Some classical, literary idealists prefer to stay away from allegories and types, favoring the plain moral or historical content of a chronicle as sufficient; at least that is what…

†   There is a very interesting worldview that we might consider today, especially when we think about how we have just prayed in our Collect Prayer: “ALMIGHTY and everlasting God,…

†   In my estimation, Charles Schulz nailed it! The creator and animator of The Peanuts Gang ‘hit it out of the park’ in terms of the thematic lesson for this,…

†  I take thee my wedded Spouse, to have and to hold from this time forth, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health,…

†   Today is Transfiguration Sunday, and Luke tells us that eight days after JESUS fed the five thousand, He took His executive board of directors atop, we believe, Mt. Hermon,…

Fr. Marq Toombs+, Curate, St. Benedict’s in Rockwall, Texas + When I was a teenager, it seemed to me like our minister (at the Mesquite Church of Christ) was always…

Rev’d. father, Marq Toombs+ There is a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip where Calvin takes a test. He sits at his desk, looks at the test, and says: “O good!…