St. John the Divine Anglican Church

Jesus said, “On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:34-46 Love is at the same time the most discussed topic in history, and the most misunderstood topic in history. Some of you may remember the movie, “Love Story” starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal. It’s a tale of love between two young people who fall in love, get married, and then have to face the

Jesus said, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. When I was in Malawi, I often had to deal with the exchange rate of US Dollars to Malawian Kwacha. The name of their currency comes from a word that means, “It has dawned,” and that is in response the crow of the rooster. As most of you know, roosters start

For many are called, but few are chosen. Matthew 22:1-14 The last part of this Gospel reading reminds me of a movie from 2005, “Wedding Crashers”. I never saw that movie, but that reminds me of a time when I crashed a wedding, but it was for a different reason. While those crashers were looking for love, I was looking for free food. This happened at a hotel where my

GRACE TO YOU AND PEACE FROM GOD OUR FATHER AND THE LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. AMEN. It has been almost eleven years since the event that changed many lives in Nickel Mines, Penn. It was the day that Charles Roberts IV walked into a one room school house in an Amish community, ordered the men and boys to leave at gun point, tied up ten little girls, aged 6

I don’t know about you, but I hate conflict. I go out of my way to avoid it. I know that is not always a good thing. Sometimes you have to confront things head on for the good of all concerned. The scripture readings today give us advice on how to handle conflict. The toughest conflict is that which happens within a family. I can tell you from experience of

My time at Camp Crucis recently reminded me of my days as a Boy Scout. My old friend, Fr. Moseley, or Father Salt as I like to call him, was a fellow Scout, and we went on many camp-outs together. We learned many things about camping. We learned to prepare our gear, shop for food, prepare meals, and best of all we learned how to put up tents and set

This Sunday we have heard a group of parables about the kingdom of heaven. The last two Sundays we heard about the sowers of seeds, and how the word will be heard by many, and accepted by few. This was something new to the Jews, who frankly did not know much about the heavenly realm. They were more worried about earthly realms, and the kingdom of Israel in particular. The

This past week Laurie and I were at Camp Crucis for the Confetti conference. And for added fun we had our grandson Wyatt with us! Confetti is a multi-age conference for K through 5th grade, and there had to be over a hundred fifty kids there. A fellow priest that I have known since we were boy scouts and I served as the spiritual directors for the week. We taught

“You are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you.” Romans 8:9 When I woke up this morning, my back and my knees reminded me that I am still in the flesh There are several interpretations of St. Paul’s teaching about the flesh. Some focus on the temptations of the flesh, as in every conceivable thing that he teaches against. He

Jesus said, “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death; and you will be hated by all because of my name.” Occasionally I see a tv commercial for the First Baptist Church in Wichita Falls. When describing their service, there is mention of great praise music and an uplifting message from the pastor. When I