Archdeacon Andrew is the Director of the JAFC's Anglican Office of Education, Training, and Formation (www.anglican.training) and Assisting Priest at Christ the King Anglican Church, Hoover, AL.
Broad is the road that leads to death, And thousands walk together there; But wisdom shows a narrow path, With here and there a traveler. The Sixth Sunday after Trinity We all begin our journey the same: dead on the side of the road. Then the Stranger approaches and sees our predicament. Compassion overflows from…
The Fifth Sunday after Trinity Trekking in the heat is a beast. It is slow trodding and akin to wrestling an opponent towards the end of the match. Your body is bruised and aching, your sweat no longer cools your body, it just gets in the way of your eyesight, and yet the challenger still…
The Fourth Sunday after Trinity There comes a time in every man’s life when the road and path traversed become confusing. You have been journeying in the same direction and heading towards the same goal, but something is different. At first, you think it is the terrain, a change in circumstances. Then you begin to…
The King of love my Shepherd is, Whose goodness falleth never; I nothing lack if I am His, And He is mine for ever. Journeying the wilderness of Western post-modernity is not for the faint of heart. There is danger along the way. The river of despair lies ahead. The rising mountains of falsity hinder…
They cast their nets in Galilee, Just off the hills of brown; Such happy, simple fisherfolk, Before the Lord came down, Before the Lord came down. The ground beneath our feet grows hard and weary in our journey along the ancient paths of the old Western lectionary. Our journey is interrupted with pebbles in our…
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! early in the morning our song shall rise to thee; holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty! God in three persons, blessed Trinity! Wake up O sleeper, and rise from the dead works of this life. Awake from the slumber of your daily habits and speak daily with your Father. Shake off…
I bind unto myself todaythe strong Name of the Trinity,by invocation of the same,the Three in One, and One in Three. This morning is one of the thirteen feast days when the Morning office replaces the baptismal Apostles’ Creed with the matured Athanasian Creed. The longer Creed catechizes us so we may vigorously confess and…
Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, and lighten with celestial fire; thou the anointing Spirit art, who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart: The Spirit descends from on High and comes to lighten our darkness. He is the great Illuminator of our hearts, our minds, our spirits, and our souls (cf. John 1:9; 2 Corinthians 4:6)….
Knowing God. By J. I. Packer. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2023. 400 pp. $29.99 (hardcover). Thanks to the Colson Fellows Program, I read Knowing God by the late great Rev. Dr. J.I. Packer for the first time. I knew about Packer’s work, but never encountered it at a bookstore or had someone personally recommend it to…
Alleluia! sing to Jesus! his the scepter, his the throne; Alleluia! his the triumph, his the victory alone; Hark! the songs of peaceful Zion thunder like a mighty flood; Jesus out of every nation hath redeemed us by his blood. Ascensiontide is a season that evokes a sense of loneliness. We find the disciples gazing…