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frcrosthwait
Mar 6, 20242 min read
Getting Ready for Lent 4
Introduction to the Word for Worship Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a...
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frcrosthwait
Feb 27, 20242 min read
Getting Ready for Lent 3
Introduction to the Word for Worship The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; * the testimony of the Lord is sure, and gives...
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frcrosthwait
Dec 8, 20233 min read
Getting Ready for Advent Lessons and Carols (Advent 2, 2023)
Our Teacher Who Art In Heaven I'm not arguing for a change in Scripture. "Our Father" is greatly preferable to "Our Teacher." "Our...
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frcrosthwait
Oct 19, 20232 min read
Getting Ready for Trinity 20
Reflection on the Word in our Worship Tell it out among the nations, “The Lord is King; * it is he who has made the world so firm that it...
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frcrosthwait
Aug 29, 20232 min read
Getting Ready for Trinity 13
Reflection on the Word in our Worship Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his...
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frcrosthwait
Aug 20, 20232 min read
Getting Ready for Trinity 12
Reflection on the Word in our Worship For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all. Oh, the depth of the...
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frcrosthwait
Aug 20, 20232 min read
Getting Ready for Trinity 11
Reflection on the Word in our Worship But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.” And he answered, “It is not right to...
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frcrosthwait
Jul 26, 20232 min read
Getting Ready for Trinity 8
Reflection on the Word in our Worship Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but...
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frcrosthwait
Jul 20, 20233 min read
Getting Ready for Trinity 7
Reflection on the Word in our Worship For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until...
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frcrosthwait
Jul 5, 20232 min read
Getting Ready for Trinity 5
Reflection on the Word in our Worship For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the...
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frcrosthwait
May 14, 20232 min read
Getting Ready for the Sunday after the Ascension
Reflection on the Word in our Worship In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the...
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frcrosthwait
May 14, 20232 min read
Getting Ready for the Fifth Sunday in Easter
Reflection on the Word in our Worship Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? But even if you should suffer for...
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frcrosthwait
Apr 21, 20232 min read
Getting Ready for the Third Sunday in Easter
Reflection on the Word in our Worship And they found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, saying, “The Lord has...
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frcrosthwait
Mar 15, 20232 min read
Getting Ready for Lent 4
Introduction to the Word for Worship Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, * for you are...
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frcrosthwait
Nov 30, 20222 min read
Getting Ready for Advent 2
Introduction to the Word for Worship For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and...
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frcrosthwait
Nov 16, 20222 min read
Getting Ready for the Christ the King
Reflection on the Word in our Worship [God the Father] has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of...
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frcrosthwait
Nov 10, 20222 min read
Getting Ready for the Twenty-Second Sunday after Trinity
Reflection on the Word in our Worship And Jesus said, “See that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, I am he!’...
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frcrosthwait
Nov 2, 20222 min read
Getting Ready for All Saints' Sunday
Reflection on the Word in our Worship Seeing the crowds, [Jesus] went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to...
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frcrosthwait
Oct 20, 20222 min read
Getting Ready for the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity
Reflection on the Word in our Worship "[T]he tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his...
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frcrosthwait
Oct 12, 20222 min read
Getting Ready for the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity
Reflection on the Word in our Worship And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his...
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