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Last Notes npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar GM npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Sermon: August 24: Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle. Before Philip called you, I saw you. Nathanael discovered that Christ knew him before he came to Christ. That is where faith begins: not with our achievement, but with grace. Come and see. Believe. Serve. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Article on the Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle: John 1:47: an Israelite in whom there is no deceit. Nathanael was known before he arrived. He confessed before the others saw. Bartholomew’s feast falls the day after Peter's confession at Caesarea Philippi, two great confessions in two days. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar From Sunday's Sermon: Matthew 16:17: “Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.” This is why we pray before we share the Gospel. This is why we keep praying for people who seem closed to it. The Father is the one who reveals. We are not. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar “The Confession of the Church” Matthew 16:13–20. The disciples had seen the works of Jesus. Peter confessed who Jesus is. And Jesus said the Father had revealed it. Evidence matters. But the confession of Christ is ultimately a gift of grace. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Free Bird Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Band at the Peacock Performing Arts Center in Hayesville, NC. Absolutely amazing. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar On Sunday we read Matthew 16:13–20. Before then, read the passage. The disciples have already confessed Jesus as the Son of God. Then, at Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asks a more searching question: “But who do you say that I am?” Notice what Peter says, and where Jesus says that confession came from. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar From Sunday's Sermon: The Canaanite woman came for her daughter, who could not come for herself. We are not bystanders in the lives of the people we love. We can come when they cannot. We can kneel when they will not. We can say, Lord, help me, and mean both ourselves and them in the same breath. Is there someone you need to bring before Jesus this week? #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar From Sunday's Sermon: Jesus did not answer the Canaanite woman a word. She came back anyway. She knelt and said four words: "Lord, help me." Has there been a season when you kept coming to Christ even through silence? What held you there? #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Matthew 15:22: “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David.” She does not say: have mercy on my daughter. She says: have mercy on me. Her daughter’s suffering and her own are not separable. The best intercession does not pretend to be unaffected. Read Sunday’s sermon: #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Matthew 15:27: “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs.” She does not dispute the framing. She presses through it. She presses the metaphor further: even within his own analogy, there is room for her. “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs.” That is what great faith does with an apparent refusal. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar "Great Is Your Faith." Matthew 15:21–28. A Canaanite woman comes to Jesus in Gentile territory. He is silent. The disciples want her gone. She kneels and says: "Lord, help me." Then she presses the metaphor of crumbs from the table until he answers. Jesus calls what she does great faith. It is what great faith has always looked like. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Sermon: Sermon: “She Said Yes.” Luke 1:46–55. The Feast of the Virgin Mary. We simply honor her for what Scripture says plainly: she is the mother of the incarnate Son of God, and she said yes before she knew the full cost. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar August 15: the Virgin Mary. The BCP says simply: you have taken to yourself the blessed Virgin Mary. The manner of her taking is not defined. The fact of God’s gracious reception is affirmed. Anglican honor rests on what Scripture says plainly: she is the mother of the incarnate Son. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Tomorrow we read Matthew 15:21–28. Before Sunday, read the passage. A Canaanite woman comes to Jesus outside Israel’s borders. He does not answer her. The disciples ask him to send her away. She does not leave. Notice what she says, and notice what Jesus calls it when she is finished. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Thermo Maven wireless thermometers and recipe make it a no brainer. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Venison medallions from @nprofile…rskv. Looking forward to this. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Matthew 14:22–33: the disciples are in this storm because of obedience, not disobedience. They got into the boat because Jesus told them to. They have been at the oars for hours in conditions they did not plan for. Sometimes faithfully doing what God calls us to do leads straight into the storm. Has that been true for you? What did that teach you? #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Matthew 14:22–33 and Jonah 2 are appointed together this last Sunday, and the pairing is deliberate. Jonah prays from the belly of the fish, from the deep, from the place of no escape: “Yet you brought up my life from the pit.” (Jonah 2:6) Peter cries from the Sea of Galilee: “Lord, save me.” Both men sinking. Both crying out. Both rescued. Both end in worship. They tell the same story in two testaments. If you missed Sunday’s sermon, this is one of the things we explored. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar 🙏 npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar One detail from Sunday’s Gospel worth sitting with. Matthew 14:22–33: Jesus could have calmed the storm from the mountain. He could see them making headway painfully from his place of prayer. He chose instead to walk into the middle of it, into the same wind, toward the same waves. He was not content to help from a safe distance. Sometimes we fear that Christ is watching our storms from a comfortable distance. Matthew 14 says otherwise. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar “Lord, Save Me.” Matthew 14:22–33. The disciples have been in a storm for hours when Jesus walks toward them on the water. Peter steps out of the boat and walks toward him. He sees the wind. He begins to sink. He cries out: Lord, save me. The hand reaches immediately. Little faith was enough to get him out of the boat. The hand of Christ was enough to keep him from drowning. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Sunday’s Gospel is Matthew 14:22–33, Peter walking on water. Before Sunday, read the passage. The disciples have been rowing against the wind for nine hours hours when Jesus appears. Notice two things: how he comes to them, and what he says when he gets there. See you Sunday. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Matthew14 npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Sermon on The Feast of the Transfiguration: August 6: Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration. On a mountain in Galilee, the face of Jesus shone like the sun. Moses and Elijah appeared. A voice spoke from the cloud. The same Jesus who healed the sick and bore the cross blazed with the glory that was always his. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Article about The Feast of the Transfiguration: August 6. The collect asks not for strength to bear the cross but to behold the King in his beauty, delivered from the disquietude of this world. The Season after Pentecost is long. The mountain appears in the middle of it. Rise, and have no fear. #Christianity #ChristIsKing #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar One detail from Sunday’s Gospel worth sitting with. Matthew 14:13–21: the crowd ate and went home. The disciples carried twelve baskets back through the dark. They had felt the bread multiply in their hands. They had watched him look up to heaven and bless. And as they carried those baskets through the desolate place, a question was beginning to form. “Who is this?” Sometimes we don’t recognize what God is doing until we’re the ones carrying the basket. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar “He Had Compassion.” Matthew 14:13–21. The miracle begins not with abundance but with grief, and not with Jesus at his most capable but at his most human. He sought the desolate place because he needed to grieve. The crowd followed. He stepped ashore and had compassion. The desolate place became, for an evening, a table in the wilderness. The arithmetic changes entirely depending on who is holding the bread. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar GM, Nostriches. Today would be a great day to go the biblically faithful church of your choice. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar This Sunday's Gospel is Matthew 14:13–21. Before Sunday, read it slowly. Jesus has just learned that John the Baptist is dead. Watch where the miracle begins. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar I'm MountainVicar, a husband, father, and parish priest serving in the North Georgia mountains. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Could anyone reasonably expect this to be different? I’m also convinced that if he did incriminate himself, absolutely nothing would happen to him. He’d probably just go on to write a book called “My Struggle” and people would be it. smh npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Always feels good to spend lightning. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Will be heading to Midday Prayer soon. I’m happy to pray for you if you let me know your requests. #GrowNostr #Plebchain ##Christianity npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Sermon: Five Kingdom parables. The mustard seed, the leaven, the hidden treasure, the pearl, the dragnet. The first two show how the Kingdom works: in hiddenness, from small beginnings. The middle two show what it is worth: everything. The last one shows what happens at the end. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Sermon on The Feast of James, Apostle: Are You Able? (Matthew 20:20-28) July 25. Jesus asked: are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink? James and John answered: we are able. Jesus said: you will drink my cup. Acts 12:2 records the fulfillment in a subordinate clause. He did not flinch. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Article: The Feast of James the Apostle: An Anglican Perspective: July 25: Saint James. First among the Twelve to be martyred. Acts 12:2 gives him two verses. The man who was at the Transfiguration, who slept in Gethsemane, who asked for the seat of honor — gone in a subordinate clause. This is what drinking the cup looks like. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Christianity npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Medium rare elk steak medallions from our first @nprofile…p5gx order. Thank you @nprofile…scfy for the recommendation. #Foodstr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Just received our first box. Going to grill Elk Steak Medallions tonight. Thanks for providing this service. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Looking forward to this. Hope there will be a video for this that a pleb/non-dev can understand. Managed to set up a start9, cold card, and NAS, but I ascribe 50% of my efforts to luck, lol. Hoping to figure out how to weave this in. Thanks for all you do. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Wisdom👇🏻 npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Sermon: I Have Seen The Lord: The Feast of Mary Magdalene. July 22. She came to the tomb in the dark, wept, asked where the body had been taken. Then Jesus spoke one word: Mary. The risen Lord’s first word on Easter morning was a proper name. She recognized him. And she said: "I have seen the Lord". npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Article on The Feast of Mary Magdalene: July 22: The risen Lord’s first word to any person on Easter morning is a name. He says ‘Mary.’ She recognizes him by her name spoken. The first Easter proclamation follows: I have seen the Lord. Four words spoken first by a woman who had been healed and refused to leave. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar The wheat and the tares. Let both grow until the harvest. The patience God requires is not indifference to evil; it is the refusal to execute a judgment that belongs to the Son of Man alone. Creation groans. The righteous wait. The harvest is certain. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Christianity npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Shopster? Have ordered some things from there in the past. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Isaiah 55:11: "My word shall not return to me empty." Matthew 13 shows most seed producing nothing. But the word accomplishes God’s purpose even when it does not visibly bear fruit in every hearer. In the good soil, it exceeds every expectation. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Christianity npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Praise God. 👊🏻 npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Matthew 11:29: take my yoke upon you. The yoke is not effortless but good, kind, well-fitting, shaped for the one who wears it. The burden of Christ is light not because following costs nothing but because he carries it alongside us. #Biblestr #ChristIsKing #Christianity npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Happy 4th, Frens. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar July 4. The BCP appoints Matthew 5:43–48 as the Gospel: love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you, be perfect as your Father is perfect. The collect asks we exercise our liberties in righteousness and peace. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #IndependenceDay npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar June 29: Peter and Paul. On the shore of Tiberias, Jesus asks Peter three times: do you love me? The same number he denied. Each question overrides a denial. Feed my lambs. Tend my sheep. Feed my sheep. And then: follow me. This is what restoration looks like. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Christianity npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar June 29: Peter and Paul. One who denied and was restored. One who persecuted and was arrested by grace. They argued in Antioch. They were martyred in Rome. The Church has never thought it necessary to choose between them. That is what the joint feast says. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Christianity npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Thank you. Praise God. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Proper 8. The cross-bearing of verses 37–39 is our calling as little ones. A cup of water given because a person belongs to Christ will by no means lose its reward. No act of faithful service is forgotten. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #CupOfWater npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Sermon: John’s fearlessness was not temperament. It was vocation. A man who knows what he is for can stand before a king and tell the truth, because his life was never about preserving his life. It was about the one coming after him. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Christianity npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar June 24: Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist. One of only two births celebrated in the Anglican calendar, the other being Christmas. The Church does not observe birthdays generally. That it has kept June 24 since the fourth century says everything about John’s place in salvation history. #ChristIsKing #JohnTheBaptist #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Thank you. Praise God! npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Three times in six verses Jesus says do not be afraid, and each fear-not comes with a reason. The truth will be revealed. God alone holds eternity. And the Father who numbers the hairs of your head has not lost track of you. The theology of Christian courage. #Biblestr #ChristIsKing #FearNot npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar The harvest is plentiful, the laborers are few — so Jesus tells them to pray first. And they were praying for themselves without knowing it. This is how God works: the prayer for laborers equips the people praying to become them. #Biblestr #ChristIsKing #HarvestIsPlentiful npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar GM npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Feast of St. Barnabas Sermon: the Son of Encouragement who gave freely, traveled light, and sought not his own renown. He lived Matthew 10 — proclaiming the Kingdom, serving without pay, wise as serpents and innocent as doves. A powerful model for us today. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Today the Church observes the Feast of Saint Barnabas. He stood before the apostles in Jerusalem and vouched for Saul when no one else would. If he had been wrong, the cost would have been real. He was not wrong. The man he testified for wrote half the New Testament. #ChristIsKing #Barnabas #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Thanks. Helpful. Followed all I didn’t already have. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar 👋 npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar The Pharisees had the sacrifices exactly right. They’d lost the "hesed". Jesus quotes Hosea to the Bible scholars: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ Without the inner reality, the outward form is a morning cloud — gone before noon. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #MeryNotSacrifice npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Was in SC for more than a decade before moving here 3.5 yrs ago. Upstate area. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Indeed, a pleasure. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar ACNA, North Georgia Mountains npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Noble mountain dog becoming noble beach dog. #dogstr #beachstr #grownostr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar The Season after Pentecost runs Trinity Sunday to Christ the King. It opens confessing the Triune God and ends proclaiming Christ’s reign. Everything between is the Church learning to live in the light of both. #ChristIsKing #SeasonAfterPentecost #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Isaiah heard it in the temple. John heard it on Patmos. We sing it every Sunday at the Table. Holy, holy, holy — who was and is and is to come. Trinity Sunday is the day we step back and ask: whose song is this, and why are we singing it? #ChristIsKing #TrinitySunday #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Before Jesus was born, his presence was already causing joy. John leapt in the womb. Elizabeth prophesied. Mary sang the Magnificat. The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth is the gospel's first proclamation — and one of the church's most overlooked feasts. #Visitation #ChristIsKing #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar The wicked servant’s error was not dramatic apostasy. It was the quiet assumption that the master was delayed — that the urgency had passed, the standards could relax. The coal had cooled. The lips had gone silent. That is how ministry dies. #ChristIsKing #EmberDays #biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Trinity Sunday stands alone among the church's great feasts — no event to commemorate, but the eternal mystery of who God is: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. One God in three persons, the foundation of everything we believe. #ChristIsKing #TrinitySunday #Christianity npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar The prayer Jesus commands in Matthew 9:38 is answered in 10:1 — the disciples who prayed for laborers become the laborers. We cannot pray earnestly for God to send workers into the harvest without finding ourselves moving toward it. #ChristIsKing #EmberDays #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar We entered a harvest we did not plant. Someone prayed for us before we were born. Someone built this congregation before we arrived. The faithfulness of this church is the planted harvest someone else will one day reap. We plant, we water, God gives the growth. #ChristIsKing #EmberDays #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Gator Ice Cream in Jacksonville Beach, FL accepts Bitcoin. #GrowNostr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Four times a year, the Anglican calendar sets aside three days for fasting, prayer, and intercession for the Church's ministry. Most Anglicans have never heard of them. Here's what Ember Days are, when they fall, and how to observe them well. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #EmberDays npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Gertie’s first day at the beach, 7 months old. Handled it like a pro. #dogstr #grownostr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar This Memorial Day, we explore the heart of the Gospel through John 15: “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” We honor those who served and gave their lives while fixing our eyes on Christ, the true Keeper and the Lamb who shepherds the multitude. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #MemorialDay npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Mary Magdalene wept alone in a garden on Easter morning. By Pentecost she is gathered with the 120 in prayer, then stands with the whole community as the Spirit is poured out on all flesh — and three thousand more are added that same day. The arc of Easter does not end with a private encounter. It ends with a community sent. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Today is Pentecost Sunday — one of the seven Principal Feasts of the Anglican year. The Spirit comes with wind and fire. Three thousand are baptized. The Church is born. The mission begins. And every year the collect asks: pour out this gift anew. #ChristIsKing #Pentecost #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Jesus doesn't pray for his people to escape the world. He prays to keep them in his name and send them into it. The new creation is underway and we are its agents — kept in his name, doing kingdom work while we wait. He is still praying for us. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Eastertide npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Best dogs ever. Our 7 month old. npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Why do you stand looking into heaven? The angels’ question to the disciples is Ascension Day’s question to the Church. He is coming back — but between now and then there is a city to return to, a commission to live out, and a blessing still in progress over us. #ChristIsKing #AscensionDay #Biblestr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar The Feast of the Ascension celebrates not the disappearance of Jesus, but his exaltation — and not his distance from us, but the new and greater intimacy of his priestly presence before the Father on our behalf. The Feast Day still presses its claims on us today. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #AscensionDay npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar GM npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Jesus doesn't say try harder. He says abide. Stay connected. The branch produces fruit not by effort but by remaining on the vine. Apart from him we can do nothing. Abide in him, and your joy will be full. The fruit comes in its season. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Easter npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar In a world that hides dependence behind supply chains and packaged goods, Rogation Sunday does something quietly subversive: takes us outside, sets us on our feet, and teaches us to ask — holding out empty hands to the Lord of heaven and earth. Ancient faith for modern times. 🌿 npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Thomas asked for directions. Jesus gave him a person. "I am the way, the truth, and the life." One way — exclusive in that there is only one, but wide open to anyone who enters. The way is not a map. The way is Jesus himself. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Easter npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Jesus doesn't say “I am a gate” — he says “I am the gate”. One narrow way in, open wide to anyone who enters through it. The thief comes to kill, steal, and destroy. The Shepherd laid down his life so the gate could open and brings abundant life. Enter by him, and find pasture. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Easter npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Two disciples walked away from Jerusalem — grieving, confused, hopes collapsed into past tense. Jesus drew near before they knew who he was, opened the Scriptures, broke the bread, and their eyes were opened. The road to Emmaus did not end in that village. #ChristIsKing #Biblestr #Easter npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar Now that spring is here, the view out of my home office just keeps getting better. #GrowNostr npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar The disciples hid behind locked doors — afraid, guilty, and grieving. Jesus came, spoke peace and breathed new life into dry bones. The doors could not hold him then. They cannot hold him now. He is still doing this today. #ChristIsKing #Christianity #Easter npub1295qveafqae0pcde7l3t6heatnvhymten0lp70fapmkdkj3ltndsdaa0gd MountainVicar On Easter morning, Mary came weeping in darkness—grieving and hopeless. The risen Jesus met her there, called her by name, and turned her tears into testimony: “I have seen the Lord.” He is calling your name too. Hear. 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