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A site that publishes some brief articles and other teaching of Father Thomas Reeves, the Priest/Pastor at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Bloomington, IL (stmattsblm.org) and author of "Was Jesus an Evangelical: Some Thoughts about the American Church and the Kingdom of God" released by eLectio Publishing (a traditional publisher - available on Amazon.com). For some of Father Tom's recent video sermons see https://www.youtube.com/@fathertomreeves2872.

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

A Guide to Reading the Bible

 

This is a concise, thoughtful, and extremely helpful article in regards to how a historic and thoughtful Christian should approach Holy Scripture.


https://livingchurch.org/covenant/2015/08/14/top-10-rules-bible-reading/



Tuesday, January 12, 2021

A Drowsy Half-Waking

 

Two months before his death C.S. Lewis wrote:

"[We are] a seed patiently waiting in the earth: waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener's good time, up into the real world, the real waking. I suppose that our whole present life, looked back on from there, will seem only a drowsy half-waking. We are here in the land of dreams. But cock-crow is coming."

McGrath, pg. 360



Saturday, January 9, 2021

For Our Country: A Prayer




O God, you have bound us together in a common life. Help us, in the midst of our struggles for justice and truth, to confront one another without hatred or bitterness, and to work together with mutual forbearance and respect; Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart [and especially the hearts of the people of this land], that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease; that our divisions being healed, we may live in justice and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

-1979 Book of Common Prayer