All Saints Anglican Church in Rochester, NY

Sunday, October 25, 2020 How to keep the primary commandment of God Most of us are well aware that the primary commandment of Almighty God is the primary directive of our lives the one most important objective to have. God expressly wants us to love Him: the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind. Simply put we are to Love God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit with all that we are and with all that we have. Have you ever deeply considered ...Continue reading

SUNDAY, October 18, 2020 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness Ps.96:9 Jesus is sharing with the woman at the well: 'You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.( John 4:22-24 ESV). Thi...Continue reading

Sunday, OCTOBER 11, 2020 Responses to the Invitation of God to the Wedding Feast of His Son (Mt.22:1-14) This Parable represents the Call of Almighty God to join Him in Heaven at the Marriage Feast of the Lamb, His Son. Christian Believers 1) hear God’s Call, 2) they respond to His Invitation, 3) they become the Bride of Christ through repentance and in turning in faith to receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior, 4) they receive a Wedding Garment being clothed in righteousness...Continue reading

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Sunday, October 4, 2020 I press on to obtain resurrection: knowing Jesus and being with Him forever. Philippians 3:8-21 <

SUNDAY September 27, 2020 For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live. Ezekiel 18:32 We are created to live forever. Our souls long for eternity We yearn to be home with the LORD forever....Continue reading

Sunday, September 20, 2020 Jonah: LESSONS God wants us to learn [Jonah 3:10--4:11 ] 3:10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it. GOD is RESPONSIVE to His people in their response to His Call for us to repent of our ways of rejecting Him and return to Him. GOD calls us back to Himself The Ninevites were being CALLED by God through Jonah for they were being judge...Continue reading

Sunday, September 13, 2020 Are you preparing to give account of yourself to God? Today’s passage from Romans 14 reminds us: For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11 for it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. 12 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. The wise Christian will look forward to this accounting on the Day of Judgment with faith and thankfulnes...Continue reading

Sunday, September 6, 2020 Message: Let our love be genuine, as we are centered in God’s Truth How genuine ~without hypocrisy~ is our love? What is love? Love is the core of who God is: ‘God is love’. Love is more an absolute, it is not relatively situational in its definition. Love is beyond feelings, it is an expression of God working in us and through us in relationship with others. Perversions of love are especially due to our propensity toward self-interest and our lack...Continue reading

Sunday, August 30, 2020 SPECIAL SERVICE OF INTERCESSION for those affected by the covid-19 pandemic >>Covid-19 can be seen as a challenge that God is using to call people to Himself in faith. He is seeking us to come to Him and not to depend upon our own powers alone, without Him! >>Our study on relevant Scripture passages will include:...Continue reading

Sunday, August 23, 2020 Message: Our Spiritual Worship (according to Romans 12:1-2) What does it mean to actively serve God in Worship that is reasonable, according to the Word, and Spiritual? Questions of ‘having right faith’ are not usually asked this way, yet this is what Our Lord is addressing through Paul in Romans 12:1-2. As an Apostle, Paul is exhorting Christians, as the Body of Christ gathered, to present (offer to God) their bodies (plural) together as a (singular: ...Continue reading

Sunday, August 16, 2020 Through ‘bed-rock’ faith in Jesus we become His ‘key-entrusted’ Church The sacred moment when Peter responded to Jesus and proclaimed: You are the Christ, the Son of the living God! is extremely life-changing for all of mankind! It is at this time that Jesus proclaimed that He would build His Church upon the bed-rock foundation of Peter’s faith response to the Heavenly Father’s revelation of the true identity of Jesus Christ. Peter was respondi...ng to the core Truth revealed to Him by Almighty God, the Heavenly Father. As people respond to the Truth of Jesus Christ, they are opening to God spiritually through faith and God is honoring that faith by embracing that person in the Body of His Son, Jesus, and they become part of His Church. Jesus, the Head of the Church, goes on to explain that Peter (with the whole Church) will be given the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Keys are used to open up (unlock) and to close up (lock) an entrance or access. The access in this case is between Heaven and earth. Once Jesus ascended to Heaven after His Death, He is at the heart of the joining of Heaven and earth. Therefore, when the Church is gathered in the Name of Jesus and sharing in His Heavenly Presence now, the Church spans Heaven and earth. Heaven and earth are joined in and through Jesus Christ and the access point is the Church. Jesus proclaims that what His Church binds (joins with and bonds with) will be bound in Heaven and what is loosed (or let go of) among them will be loosed from Heaven. The Church is entrusted with and empowered with the Keys to assist people to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as people become ‘born of the Spirit’ as they respond through faith in Jesus. As it began through Peter and the Early Church and has continued time after time thereafter, people would hear the Word of God, the Gospel Truth, through the Church and they would respond with faith and they would receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and they would be joined in Christ as His Church (see Acts 2:38-41, Acts 8:14-17, Acts 10:30-35,44-45). This is what Jesus was proclaiming to Peter when He said: ‘You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it’, as well as stating: ‘I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven’. As His Church today, let us make sure we are doing our part in helping people to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as members of His Church. We have been granted a sacred trust and an important responsibility as members of His Church to whom He has entrusted the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven! Let’s pray people into His Kingdom and share His Gospel and His Presence so that people through faith are born of the Spirit and enter His Kingdom and so are alive in Him forever! See more

Sunday, August 9, 2020 >>>>>Meeting Jonah at the foot of the Cross<<<<< In Jonah chapter 2, we meet Jonah in a very dark place, where he ended up after he pushed away from God as hard as he could. Jonah was refusing to trust God. He was refusing to go along with God in His plans. Jonah didn’t want to do what God wanted him to do... Now, he was experiencing what many people experience in their lives at least on occasion. Jonah felt like he was in ‘the belly of Sheol’ (whi...ch is the place of departed souls). It was a hopeless and forlorn place for him away from God. Jonah felt that God had thrown him into the ocean depths and that he was drowning as the gates were closing in upon him forever (verse 5: The waters closed in over me to take my life; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped about my head 6 at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever.) However, Jonah still believed in the Lord evenso and trusted in Him for the life of his soul. It is expressed in this way in verse 7: When my life was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to You, into Your holy temple. In fact, Jonah expresses a ‘golden nugget’ of Truth in the difference between a believer and a non-believer in their relationship with God and regarding their judgment. The next verses make these different relationships with God clear: 8 ‘Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love. 9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to You; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the LORD!’ Jonah expresses the supreme and vital point of Faith related to Salvation. The persons who value idols (their own ‘gods’) do not maintain their faith in the True God; they are rejecting Him. Therefore they lose their salvation, as Jonah puts it: they ‘forsake their hope of steadfast love’: God’s Holy, Eternal Love is lost to them. However, Jonah, feeling as forsaken and unloved as he might have felt, still cried out with a voice of thanksgiving, (as he put it) sacrificially offering up his life as a promise of what he owes to God, with a faith-filled proclamation that ‘Salvation belongs to the Lord’. This is the same faithful entrusting of the soul that Jesus did in His experience of forsakenness on the Cross as He cried out: ‘Father, into Thy hands I commend my Spirit’. This is the entrusting of the soul to Almighty God with life/death faith in Him since Salvation, Deliverance, even Life itself belong to Him! Remember this: Jonah felt as though he had lost everything, however at the time of the Cross in his life, he gained the Lord and he was truly saved: Yes, at the point of losing his life he gained his life, by entrusting his soul to God! Let us do likewise to the Glory of God! Amen. See more

Sunday, August 2, 2020 Live in God’s Love by letting God’s Love live in you! A message on Romans 8:37-39 God’s Love is meant to be the core of everything we are. God’s holy Love needs to be the center of everything we think, we say, we do If Love is not at the center, then we are self-centered. Our best efforts become annoying, hurtful and unfruitful. We become nothing. Without love we end up leaving God out of our lives. (see 1 Corinthians 13:1-3).... Come back to God and may His Love be at the heart of your life by praying for Love, pursuing Love, and practicing His Love. Return to Him by considering Him: loving Him >first and foremost. As commended in Philippians 4:8 & 9 whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious think about (focus upon) these things! Do this and live with Jesus Christ as the center of your life. Do what is most loving in and through Him and He, the God of Peace, will be with you even within your thoughts, words, and actions: so that you can be expressing His Love! Live in God’s Love by letting God’s Love live in you! As a Christian Believer nothing ‘will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord’(Romans 8:39). So do not let His Love be diminished or impeded. Do not let your anger, or your mood, or self-interest, or your negligence, or apathy or any expression of self-centeredness > grieve the Holy Spirit in your life and block God’s love from being expressed through you. Remember: ‘God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which/who has been given us’ (Romans 5:5)! As proclaimed in Romans 8:37 ‘No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us’: Yes, through Jesus Christ our Lord who seeks to fill us with His Love and use us to express His Love today and forevermore! Amen. See more