73rd Birthday, Episode 20 & Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity

Surprisingly, amidst the hustle and bustle of celebrating my 73rd birthday yesterday, getting Episode Twenty in the Revelation series uploaded to the AIC’s You Tube channel, and servicing client accounts, I managed to complete and upload a Podcast Homily for the Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity.

The Scriptural texts are Galatians 3:16-22 and Luke 10:29-37, Continue reading “73rd Birthday, Episode 20 & Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity”

Revelation – Episode Twenty

Folio 34, The Lamb on Mt. Sion, the Bamberg Apocalypse, 11th C., Bamberg State Library, Bamberg, Germany.
Folio 34, The Lamb on Mt. Sion, the Bamberg Apocalypse, 11th C., Bamberg State Library, Bamberg, Germany.

Late yesterday, on my 73rd birthday, I uploaded a new installment in the Revelation: An Idealist Interpretation series.  The focus of Episode Twenty is Chapter 14, the Lamb and the 144 Thousand.  Among the illustrations are two graphics from the Bamberg Apocalypse, an early 11th Century illustrated manuscript of Revelation.  Also in the episode are the Christ Pantokrator icon (6th C.) Continue reading “Revelation – Episode Twenty”

Revelation 19 and Twelfth Sunday After Trinity

The Horned Beast, Folio 33, Bamberg Apocalypse, early 11th Century.  Bamberg State Library, Bamberg, Germany
The Horned Beast, Folio 33, Bamberg Apocalypse, early 11th Century illuminated manuscript, Bamberg State Library, Bamberg, Germany

The AIC’s online Bible Study series, Revelation: An Idealist Interpretation, is nearing its completion with the uploading this week of Episode Nineteen.   The series will conclude in late September or early October with Episode Twenty-eight.   Continue reading “Revelation 19 and Twelfth Sunday After Trinity”

Revelation – Episode 18 and Eleventh Sunday After Trinity

This week my iPad was replaced by Apple and I was able to complete production of Episode Eighteen in the Revelation: An Idealist Interpretation series.  The episode is focused on Chapter 13:1-10, the Beast with a Blasphemous Name.  The remaining verses in Chapter 13 will be discussed in Episode Nineteen.  St. John’s perspective is still earth, looking to heaven, when he receives a vision of the Beast with seven heads,each crowned,ten horns, and “on his head a blasphemous name.”   Watch Episode 18 Continue reading “Revelation – Episode 18 and Eleventh Sunday After Trinity”

Tenth Sunday After Trinity

My Podcast Homily for the Tenth Sunday After Trinity is now available using the link below or the link on the Podcast Homilies page at http://www.AnglicanInternetChurch.net     Listen to the Podcast

Destruction of Jerusalem, oil on canvas by David Roberts, c. 1850
Destruction of Jerusalem, oil on canvas by David Roberts, c. 1850

This week’s Scripture readings are 1 Corinthians 12:1-11, St. Paul’s discourse on the Gifts of the Spirit, and Luke 19:41-47a, Jesus’ prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem (see illustration at left) and St. Luke’s abbreviated account of the cleansing of the Temple. Continue reading “Tenth Sunday After Trinity”