MountainVicar 3 days ago

Matthew 11:29: take my yoke upon you. The yoke is not effortless but good, kind, well-fitting, shaped for the one who wears it. The burden of Christ is light not because following costs nothing but because he carries it alongside us. #Biblestr #ChristIsKing #Christianity

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Rest for Your Souls (Matthew 11:25-35)

Matthew 11:29: take my yoke upon you. The yoke is not effortless but good, kind, well-fitting, shaped for the one who wears it. The burden of Chris...

MountainVicar 4 days ago

July 4. The BCP appoints Matthew 5:43–48 as the Gospel: love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you, be perfect as your Father is perfect. The collect asks we exercise our liberties in righteousness and peace. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #IndependenceDay

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A Better Country: Independence Day (Matthew 5:43-48)

Deuteronomy 10:18: God loves the sojourner and defends the fatherless and widow. Love the sojourner, for you were sojourners in Egypt. The God whos...

MountainVicar 1 week ago

June 29: Peter and Paul. On the shore of Tiberias, Jesus asks Peter three times: do you love me? The same number he denied. Each question overrides a denial. Feed my lambs. Tend my sheep. Feed my sheep. And then: follow me. This is what restoration looks like. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Christianity

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Do You Love Me? Peter and Paul, Apostles (John 21:15-19)

Ezekiel 34: I myself will search for my sheep. God declares himself the shepherd because the human shepherds failed. Then on a Galilean shore he ha...

MountainVicar 1 week ago

June 29: Peter and Paul. One who denied and was restored. One who persecuted and was arrested by grace. They argued in Antioch. They were martyred in Rome. The Church has never thought it necessary to choose between them. That is what the joint feast says. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Christianity

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The Feast of Peter and Paul, Apostles: An Anglican Perspective

The collect for Peter and Paul: knit together in unity by your Spirit. Two apostles who argued in Antioch over the future of the Gospel. The only t...

MountainVicar 2 weeks ago

Sermon: John’s fearlessness was not temperament. It was vocation. A man who knows what he is for can stand before a king and tell the truth, because his life was never about preserving his life. It was about the one coming after him. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Christianity

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What Then Will This Child Be? The Nativity of John the Baptist (Luke 1:57-80)

John’s fearlessness was not temperament. It was vocation. A man who knows what he is for can stand before a king and tell the truth, because his ...

MountainVicar 2 weeks ago

June 24: Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist. One of only two births celebrated in the Anglican calendar, the other being Christmas. The Church does not observe birthdays generally. That it has kept June 24 since the fourth century says everything about John’s place in salvation history. #ChristIsKing #JohnTheBaptist #Biblestr

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The Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist: An Anglican Perspective

The Nativity of John the Baptist. The collect: truly repent, boldly rebuke vice, patiently suffer for truth, proclaim the coming of Christ. Not gen...

MountainVicar 2 weeks ago

Three times in six verses Jesus says do not be afraid, and each fear-not comes with a reason. The truth will be revealed. God alone holds eternity. And the Father who numbers the hairs of your head has not lost track of you. The theology of Christian courage. #Biblestr #ChristIsKing #FearNot

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Have No Fear of Them (Matthew 10:16-33)

Matthew 10:28: Jesus does not cure the fear of men by promising nothing bad will happen. He cures it with the fear of God. There is a right orderin...

MountainVicar 3 weeks ago

The harvest is plentiful, the laborers are few — so Jesus tells them to pray first. And they were praying for themselves without knowing it. This is how God works: the prayer for laborers equips the people praying to become them. #Biblestr #ChristIsKing #HarvestIsPlentiful

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Pray Earnestly to the Lord of the Harvest (Matthew 9:35-10:15)

Matthew 9:36 — he had compassion, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Splagchnizomai — a visceral word, fro...

MountainVicar 3 weeks ago

Feast of St. Barnabas Sermon: the Son of Encouragement who gave freely, traveled light, and sought not his own renown. He lived Matthew 10 — proclaiming the Kingdom, serving without pay, wise as serpents and innocent as doves. A powerful model for us today. #ChristIsKing #Barnabas #Biblestr https://www.mountainvicar.com/not-his-own-renown-barnabas-the-apostle-2026-matthew-ch-10-vv-7-to-16/

MountainVicar 3 weeks ago

Today the Church observes the Feast of Saint Barnabas. He stood before the apostles in Jerusalem and vouched for Saul when no one else would. If he had been wrong, the cost would have been real. He was not wrong. The man he testified for wrote half the New Testament. #ChristIsKing #Barnabas #Biblestr https://www.mountainvicar.com/barnabas-the-apostle-an-anglican-perspective/

MountainVicar 1 month ago

The Season after Pentecost runs Trinity Sunday to Christ the King. It opens confessing the Triune God and ends proclaiming Christ’s reign. Everything between is the Church learning to live in the light of both. #ChristIsKing #SeasonAfterPentecost #Biblestr

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The Season after Pentecost: An Anglican Perspective

Year A follows Matthew through the Beatitudes and parables. Year B follows Mark through Galilee to the cross. Year C follows Luke on the journey to...

MountainVicar 1 month ago

Isaiah heard it in the temple. John heard it on Patmos. We sing it every Sunday at the Table. Holy, holy, holy — who was and is and is to come. Trinity Sunday is the day we step back and ask: whose song is this, and why are we singing it? #ChristIsKing #TrinitySunday #Biblestr

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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: Trinity Sunday 2026 (Matthew 28:16-20)

Isaiah heard it in the temple. John heard it on Patmos. We sing it every Sunday at the Table. Holy, holy, holy — who was and is and is to come. T...

MountainVicar 1 month ago

Before Jesus was born, his presence was already causing joy. John leapt in the womb. Elizabeth prophesied. Mary sang the Magnificat. The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth is the gospel's first proclamation — and one of the church's most overlooked feasts. #Visitation #ChristIsKing #Biblestr https://www.mountainvicar.com/the-visitation-an-anglican-perspective/

MountainVicar 1 month ago

The wicked servant’s error was not dramatic apostasy. It was the quiet assumption that the master was delayed — that the urgency had passed, the standards could relax. The coal had cooled. The lips had gone silent. That is how ministry dies. #ChristIsKing #EmberDays #biblestr https://www.mountainvicar.com/so-doing-saturday-of-summer-embertide-2026-matthew-ch-24-vv-42-to-50/

MountainVicar 1 month ago

Trinity Sunday stands alone among the church's great feasts — no event to commemorate, but the eternal mystery of who God is: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. One God in three persons, the foundation of everything we believe. #ChristIsKing #TrinitySunday #Christianity https://www.mountainvicar.com/trinity-sunday-an-anglican-perspective/

MountainVicar 1 month ago

The prayer Jesus commands in Matthew 9:38 is answered in 10:1 — the disciples who prayed for laborers become the laborers. We cannot pray earnestly for God to send workers into the harvest without finding ourselves moving toward it. #ChristIsKing #EmberDays #Biblestr

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The Harvest Is Plentiful: Friday of Summer Embertide (Matthew 9:35-38)

Christ gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds and teachers not to do the ministry for the congregation but ‘to equip the saints for the ...

MountainVicar 1 month ago

We entered a harvest we did not plant. Someone prayed for us before we were born. Someone built this congregation before we arrived. The faithfulness of this church is the planted harvest someone else will one day reap. We plant, we water, God gives the growth. #ChristIsKing #EmberDays #Biblestr https://www.mountainvicar.com/lift-up-your-eyes-wednesday-of-summer-embertide-2026-john-ch-4-vv-31-to-38/

MountainVicar 1 month ago

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MountainVicar 1 month ago

Four times a year, the Anglican calendar sets aside three days for fasting, prayer, and intercession for the Church's ministry. Most Anglicans have never heard of them. Here's what Ember Days are, when they fall, and how to observe them well. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #EmberDays

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Ember Days: An Anglican Perspective

Four times a year, the Anglican calendar sets aside three days for fasting, prayer, and intercession for the Church's ministry. Most Anglicans have...