All Saints Anglican Church

Candlemas is the popular nickname for what is today called the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. However, this name is relatively recent. Traditionally, it was the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Explore how Luke’s story of the Presentation intends for to see the event through the lens of Mary and what more fully her purification is.

Paul is the poster child for the saving power of God’s grace—pursuing the lost, calling them out of darkness, and setting them on an entirely new path. Paul shows us that no one is beyond God’s reach.

"Who do you say that I am?" Peter’s confession and Jesus’s response in Matthew 16 has shaped centuries of theological debate—yet at its heart, it speaks to Church’s unity in brokenness. In this sermon, we explore what that the Church is built on the Rock.

Why does Luke insert his genealogy of Jesus between the Baptism of our Lord and His temptation in the wilderness? How does it dramatically reshape the images and words it shares in common with both Matthew’s and Mark’s accounts?

How does Paul understand himself as a Cross-shaped “epiphany” to the nations? We look at Ephesians 3 to explore this question.

Why is Die Hard a Christmas movie and what does it have to do with that first Christmas Eve?

Mary takes center stage in the first two chapters of Luke’s Gospel and, looking at the Visitation and Mary’s Magnificat, we explore how Luke sees in her, this daughter of Zion, a great gathering of Old Testament figures — Deborah, Jael, Sarah, Eve, and Hannah, even Israel and Jerusalem, and perhaps most powerfully, the Ark of the Covenant — and how all of it ultimately “magnifies the Lord.”

Paul commands us to rejoice always. How is that possible? And how is the possibility of such joy achieved only through judgment? It probably has something to do with the Cross, and we look to Zephaniah to see how this is so.

How does John the Baptist both gather up in himself the lineage of Old Testament prophets, and point to the radically new form of prophet that Jesus is?

Nobody likes to be judged, but judgment is the necessary precursor to any kind of redemption. At the begnning of Advent, we explore the meaning of the coming Day of the Lord at the end of the Book of Zechariah: a day involves judgment, but where the Lord Himself also restores us, making all things new.

Pilate cyncially asks “What is Truth?” even as Truth Incarnate stands before Him, but what does this moment tell us about the character of Truth?

“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God” (Hebrews 10:31). It is indeed! The author of Hebrews means this for those who have rejected God, but it’s also scary for those of us trying to wait patiently in hope. How do Christians trust God in the struggles and suffering?

We look this week at the story of the widow’s two-copper offering. It’s a story often read as a moral lesson in the need for sacrificial giving, but — given its telling just days before the Cross — it’s not a bad bet that it points to something a whole lot bigger in Christ.

In his annual visit to our parish, our bishop, the Rt. Rev. Alex Cameron explores the meaning of All Saints through Revelation 7.

How is the curing the blindness of Bartimaeus a kind of summation of who Jesus is and what He has come to do, as promised Israel’s Scriptures? And how is our “seeing” something as needed now as it was then?

“Luke alone is with me” (2 Timothy 4:11). Together with his closing requests to Timothy for his cloak, his books and parchments, and the company of Mark, Paul’s strange remark about Luke seems like something that modern readers can write off as a vestige of the actual historic situation. However, it’s important to remember that this has been enscriptured. It has been inspired by and preserved by t...

We look at the story of the rich man, who (so he says!) obeyed the Law perfectly, but couldn’t give up his riches to follow Jesus. One thing he lacked, Jesus tells us. What was it? Is this really a story about the evil of money and people with money, or does it strike more universally at the heart of things we use to save ourselves from needing God?

Taking All Saints on the road for a worship service and blessing of the animals in Cranberry Community Park, we look at this portion of the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus tells us to be more like the birds and the flowers when it comes to anxiety. Given how tough this world can be — surely even for the birds and flowers sometimes, too — how is Jesus able to tell us to relax a bit and trust in Go...

Like many things in the Book of Revelation, the idea of the war in heaven between Michael and the dragon readily captures our attention, but at the end of the day it’s just affirming that great Christian truth that, although there is suffering in this world (especially for Christians who are not of this world), the victory has been won once and for all in and through God made man for us in Christ...

We explore Jesus’s calling of Matthew in Matthew’s own Gospel. How is he a picture of the calling of any sinner? And how is that picture both humbling and a cause for rejoicing in Jesus.

Holy Cross Day commemorates the actual, physical instrument through which God through Christ Jesus redeemed us all. Focusing on John 12:32, we explore what it means for the Son of Man to be “lifted up” on that hard wood of the Cross.

What does James mean when he exhorts us to be “doers of the Word”? How exactly does one “do” the “Word,” that is, the “Logos”? To try to answer this question, we explore the Gospel as the radically transformative power of God’s Word for oneself and the world.

A dying Moses not only teaches God’s people how to teach God’s Word so that it will go well with them wherever they go, but also presents in himself a picture of Christ and the Cross that is a picture of the reason why we cling to that Word.

Modernity probably doesn't have a monopoly on the sense of challenge (and even offense!) that Paul’s call to husbands and wives in Ephesian 5 poses. It’s a tough word, but we explore how it is nevertheless one grounded in the “profound mystery” of what it means to be a human being created in the image of God and redeemed through the Cross of Christ.

We look at the ways in which the Wisdom of God has been revealed in the world: in Creation, in Word, in the flesh of the Incarnate Word, and in His Church.