“Keeping Our Eyes on the Fig Tree” Saint Brendan’s Anglican Church Rev. David R. Sincerbox December 2, 2018 Zechariah 14:1-9; Psalm 50; 1 Thessalonian 3:6-13; Luke 21:25-33 Collect: 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…
Yet from Augustine’s point of view (and ours, too) time is an accumulation of events that is leading to a cataclysmic summation, which will bring about the Second Coming of Christ. But something not quite as cataclysmic (at least I pray not so) are the events of our own lives. What are the events that we are accumulating in our lives? Are they God-honoring events? Are they events preparing us for Jesus’ Return?
Rev. David R. Sincerbox Isaiah 43:1-12, Psalm 116:10-17, 1 Peter 1:13-25, Luke 24:13-35 The journey has been a theme in great Western literature from the time of Homer’s Odyssey, which the Coen brothers’ movie “Brother, Where Art Thou?” follows somewhat. We all read Robert Frost’s poem of journey, “The Road Not Taken,” in high school.…