MountainVicar 11 hours ago

Sermon: Five Kingdom parables. The mustard seed, the leaven, the hidden treasure, the pearl, the dragnet. The first two show how the Kingdom works: in hiddenness, from small beginnings. The middle two show what it is worth: everything. The last one shows what happens at the end. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr

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Of Great Price (Matthew 13:31–33; 44–50)

One man stumbles on the treasure; one spends his life seeking the pearl. Both arrive at the same posture: sell everything. The Kingdom comes to tho...

MountainVicar yesterday

Sermon on The Feast of James, Apostle: Are You Able? (Matthew 20:20-28) July 25. Jesus asked: are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink? James and John answered: we are able. Jesus said: you will drink my cup. Acts 12:2 records the fulfillment in a subordinate clause. He did not flinch. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr

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Are You Able? The Feast of James, Apostle (Matthew 20:20-28)

Jesus asks: are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink? They answer: we are able. He says: you will drink my cup. Within fifteen years, James...

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Article: The Feast of James the Apostle: An Anglican Perspective: July 25: Saint James. First among the Twelve to be martyred. Acts 12:2 gives him two verses. The man who was at the Transfiguration, who slept in Gethsemane, who asked for the seat of honor — gone in a subordinate clause. This is what drinking the cup looks like. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Christianity https://www.mountainvicar.com/the-feast-of-james-the-apostle-an-anglican-prospective/

MountainVicar 2 days ago

Medium rare elk steak medallions from our first @Beck & Bulow order. Thank you @jack mallers for the recommendation. #Foodstr

MountainVicar 4 days ago

Sermon: I Have Seen The Lord: The Feast of Mary Magdalene. July 22. She came to the tomb in the dark, wept, asked where the body had been taken. Then Jesus spoke one word: Mary. The risen Lord’s first word on Easter morning was a proper name. She recognized him. And she said: "I have seen the Lord". #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr

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I Have Seen The Lord: The Feast of Mary Magdalene (John 20:11-18)

Before any of the Twelve proclaimed it, Mary carried the resurrection to them: apostle to the apostles (apostola apostolorum). The first Easter se...

MountainVicar 4 days ago

Article on The Feast of Mary Magdalene: July 22: The risen Lord’s first word to any person on Easter morning is a name. He says ‘Mary.’ She recognizes him by her name spoken. The first Easter proclamation follows: I have seen the Lord. Four words spoken first by a woman who had been healed and refused to leave. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr

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The Feast of Mary Magdalene: An Anglican Perspective

July 22: Mary Magdalene. Psalm 42: as a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you. Mary at the empty tomb — weeping, searching —...

MountainVicar 1 week ago

The wheat and the tares. Let both grow until the harvest. The patience God requires is not indifference to evil; it is the refusal to execute a judgment that belongs to the Son of Man alone. Creation groans. The righteous wait. The harvest is certain. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Christianity

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Until the Harvest (Matthew 13:24–30; 34–43)

The final judgment in Matthew 13 is not only a separation of the ungodly from the godly. It is also a separation of ungodliness from the godly. The...

MountainVicar 2 weeks ago

Isaiah 55:11: "My word shall not return to me empty." Matthew 13 shows most seed producing nothing. But the word accomplishes God’s purpose even when it does not visibly bear fruit in every hearer. In the good soil, it exceeds every expectation. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Christianity

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It Shall Not Return Empty (Matthew 13:1–9; 18–23)

Isaiah 55:11: my word shall not return to me empty. Matthew 13 shows most seed producing nothing. But the word accomplishes God’s purpose even wh...

MountainVicar 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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...