MountainVicar 20 hours ago

Proper 8. The cross-bearing of verses 37–39 is our calling as little ones. A cup of water given because a person belongs to Christ will by no means lose its reward. No act of faithful service is forgotten. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #CupOfWater

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Worthy of Me (Matthew 10:34-42)

J.C. Ryle: "Many begin as Abraham or Moses and end as Lot’s wife." The love of the world, the fear of the world, the cares of the world: this is ...

MountainVicar 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 3 weeks ago

The Pharisees had the sacrifices exactly right. They’d lost the "hesed". Jesus quotes Hosea to the Bible scholars: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ Without the inner reality, the outward form is a morning cloud — gone before noon. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #MeryNotSacrifice

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Hesed: Steadfast Love (Matthew 9:9-13)

Hosea says Israel’s love for God was like a morning cloud — glistening at dawn, gone by midday. Jesus quotes Hosea to the Pharisees at Matthew�...

MountainVicar 3 weeks ago

Noble mountain dog becoming noble beach dog. #dogstr #beachstr #grownostr

MountainVicar 3 weeks 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 0 months 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

Gator Ice Cream in Jacksonville Beach, FL accepts Bitcoin. #GrowNostr

MountainVicar 1 month ago

Gertie’s first day at the beach, 7 months old. Handled it like a pro. #dogstr #grownostr

MountainVicar 1 month ago

Jesus doesn't pray for his people to escape the world. He prays to keep them in his name and send them into it. The new creation is underway and we are its agents — kept in his name, doing kingdom work while we wait. He is still praying for us. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Eastertide

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Kept in Your Name (John 17:1-11)

Jesus doesn't pray for his people to escape the world. He prays to keep them in his name and send them into it. The new creation is underway and we...

MountainVicar 1 month ago

Why do you stand looking into heaven? The angels’ question to the disciples is Ascension Day’s question to the Church. He is coming back — but between now and then there is a city to return to, a commission to live out, and a blessing still in progress over us. #ChristIsKing #AscensionDay #Biblestr https://www.mountainvicar.com/he-ascended-into-heaven-luke-ch-24-vv-44-to-53/

MountainVicar 1 month ago

The Feast of the Ascension celebrates not the disappearance of Jesus, but his exaltation — and not his distance from us, but the new and greater intimacy of his priestly presence before the Father on our behalf. The Feast Day still presses its claims on us today. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #AscensionDay https://www.mountainvicar.com/ascension-day-an-anglican-perspective/

MountainVicar 2 months ago

Now that spring is here, the view out of my home office just keeps getting better. #GrowNostr

MountainVicar 2 months ago

Alleluia! He is risen! #ChristIsKing #EasterSunday #Biblestr

MountainVicar 2 months ago

GM. Happy Easter Nostriches. #ChristIsKing #Easter #Biblestr