St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - weekly talks

Ellison and Betsy Ruch share their call to the Middle East to plant churches with Anglican Frontier Missions.

"Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come" I Corinthians 10:11.

Welcome to the Genesis Class at St. Aidan's, KC. Bill hopes to discuss the book of Genesis at least through chapter 15 and God's covenant with Abraham. The class will cover foundational themes regarding Creation and Redemption, the nature of the image of God, the Seed of the woman (and the Seed of Abraham) vs the Seed of the serpent, and the city of God vs the city of Man. We'll look at how all these points to Israel as God's chosen people, to Jesus as God's well-beloved Son, and to you upon whom the ends of the ages have come! The result, we hope, will be a greater understanding of "the big picture" presented in Scripture, a greater appreciation for how God works to accomplish his purposes, a greater joy in who Jesus is and what he has done and is doing, and a greater awe at how you have been placed into this unfolding story.

Recommended background reading: Meredith Kline's Kingdom Prologue. See https://meredithkline.com/

Also, Theopolis Podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-theopolis-podcast/id1148175126?i=1000587310606

Icon: The Holy Trinity by Andrei Rublev

Isaiah 42:1-12 and Matthew 3:13-17 - God’s holiness is to descend to the level of humanity if humanity is to be inflamed by its fire. "Jesus illustrates that the path of repentance is not based in self-loathing over perpetual failure to live in God’s holiness. Repentance is grounded not in a desire to abase myself, but in a clear understanding and a profound conviction of my great worth in the eyes of God. Repentance springs from a knowledge that I am worth so much that I do not have the right to deprive myself of the life God wants to give me, or to deprive God himself, for that matter, of the irreplaceable love he seeks in me." Erasmo Merikakis.

Incarnation And Adoption - Fr. Derek Metcalf 01.01.23 by St. Aidan's Anglican Church, KC

Christmas Homily From Leo The Great - Remember Your Dignity Fr. Michael Flowers 12.25.22 by St. Aidan's Anglican Church, KC

Our friend and guest speaker is Dr. Jeren Rowell, the President of Nazarene Theological Seminary.

Bio:

Having served as a local church pastor for 25 years, and a district superintendent for 12 years, I have a passion for and deep commitment to the life and work of parish ministry. The church at its best lives and serves together under the lordship of Jesus in ways that the congregation’s life becomes a living and observable paradigm of the reign of God in Christ Jesus.

This passion led me toward the Seminary as a pastor, superintendent, instructor, professor, and now as president because I believe that what we do in helping to shape ministers of the gospel for the church should impact positively what happens in local churches all over the world every week.

My great joy is time spent with my wife, four children and their spouses, and six grandchildren. I love baseball (Chicago Cubs), music (especially big band jazz), and ice cream.

Isaiah 35; Matthew 11; James 5:7f

At the coming of the Lord, the poor and the meek of the earth, the most vulnerable, become his first concern.

Lectionary A: Isaiah 11; Psalm 72; Romans 15; Matthew 3

YEAR A

Isa 2:1-5

Ps 122

Rom 13:8-14

Matt 24:29-44

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Christ the King Sunday, our bishop visited and ministered the Word, Sacrament, and Confirmation. A glorious Sunday! Jesus is Lord.