Ancient Anglican

In both the fire of the refiner and in the soap of the fuller, God is making all things new. Rev. 21:5.

See how Malachi looks forward towards the more perfect, faithful covenant of Christ Jesus.

When we read the Hebrew Scriptures, we should continuously look for Jesus Christ within them.

The outward appearance is identical, but the foundations are different. Sand won’t support the building, but rock will. The question that Jesus poses to us in the teaching is where is our foundation?

Jesus, through the Sermon on the Mount, is the one who provides us with the correct trajectory. If we are on the way of Jesus then we will hit the mark.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you – the rest of Scripture is mere commentary.

Our Christian faith forbids us from spying on the sins of others and demands that we are strict and merciless judges when it comes to our own misdeeds. – St. Nikolai Velimirović

Do we obey the trappings of this life and become obedient to acquiring things or do we seek the Kingdom? The promise is that if we seek the Kingdom first, then everything else will fall into place

And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Just as an acorn is perfected when it grows into a mature oak, how do we obtain our perfection or chief end? For what purpose were we created and to what end do we necessarily aspire?

“Only when we love without regard to the identity of the beloved can we ever waive retribution and truly love our enemies.” – Soren Kierkegaard

We affirm as our Lord’s principle and standard of marriage a life-long and indissoluble union, for better or worse, of one man with one woman, to the exclusion of all others on either side, and call all Christians to maintain and bear witness to this standard. Resolution 67, 1920 Lambeth Conference.