Sunday Services

Sunday School - 9:30 am

Holy Communion - 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays, 10:30 am

Morning Prayer - 2nd and 4th Sundays, 10:30 am

Thursday Services

Evening Prayer Service 7:00 PM

Reaching out to the least, the lonely, and the lost

Holy Communion Service at Friendship South

2nd and 4th Sundays, 2:30 pm

Thoughts from the Lectionary for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity

From the Epistle Lesson: Romans 6:3 -11

VS. 6 "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin."

As ones who are united to Christ, Christians have been baptized into His death as the Apostle says. This means that we have died to any of our old “allegiances”. As descendants of Adam we inherited all that was his. His transgression against God, the warping of his nature into a sinful one, and eventual physical death as punishment due. When we are united with Jesus the old person that we once were is put to death by virtue of the death of our Saviour. And just as we are united to Him in His death we are likewise united to His glorious resurrection. A resurrection to a new life. A life of loyalty to Christ and reliance upon Him alone. A life where we are no longer slaves to sin as we were in Adam, but now free to serve and worship God in spirit and truth.

We have died with Christ and been raised to life in Him. Live a new life filled with the Holy Spirit and power to war against sin, the flesh, and the Devil.

Blessings,

Fr. Duane+