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

Thursdays

Evening Prayer - 7:00 pm Bible Study - 7:30 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 Fourth Sunday after Easter

From the Epistle Lesson: St. James 1:17-21

Vs. 17 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."

James here has mentioned that, though God at times tests mankind He never entices them into sin, but rather we sin when we have been drawn away from the will of God by our own desires. He now entreats his readers not to be deceived into believing that God would tempt them to sin and reminds them that God is the provider of all that is good and perfect. He instructs them that, unlike the luminaries of nature such as the stars, moon and sun (which have phases, eclipses and shadows), God Himself, the true Father of all lights doesn’t change that way. He is the same yesterday, today and forever, and because He doesn’t change, neither does His word of truth by which He gave birth to us His people.

So let us live our lives as the example He intends us to be, the “first fruits” of His creation.

Blessings,

Fr. Duane+