Diocese of the Southeast, REC
The Rt. Rev. Alphonza Gadsden, Sr.
Southeastern Region, FiFNA
Southeastern Convocation, ACN
The Rev. James McCaslin
From the Scriptures
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
I Corinthians 15:1-11 (ESV)
A Guiding Prayer
O God, who declarest thy almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity; Mercifully grant unto us such a measure of thy grace, that we, running the way of thy commandments, may obtain thy gracious promises, and be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
“The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity,” The Book of Common Prayer (USA, 1928)
A Heritage Reflection
“Look to the persons, Adam and Christ: shall Adam, being but a ‘living soul,’ infect us more strongly than Christ, ‘a quickening Spirit’ can heal us again? Nay then, Adam was but ‘from the earth, earthy, Christ the Lord from Heaven.’ Shall earth do that which Heaven cannot undo? Never.”
Bishop Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)
Sermons (Vol. II)
Sermons (Vol. II)
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Thank you for this place of holy refreshment. For the Spirit-led selections that are the antidote for Anglican angst and the bitterness of soul that builds up when we focus on the conflicts and evils and not on His Face and His Word, His redemptive power.
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