Our church services have a schedule of readings from the Bible that is designed to bring the whole Gospel to our attention, through the cycle of the seasons we call the Christian year. Typically, a Sunday will include a reading from the Old Testament, then a selection from the letters of the Apostles to the early communities of the Christian faith as it spread through the world, and finally a passage from one of the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ own life and teachings on earth.

The sermon that follows these readings is usually based directly on a finding or an observation from the part of the Bible read that day. Episcopal ministers tend to study the Bible in a scholarly way, rather than to prove a point. This doesn’t bring doubt, but rather the opposite. Digging deeper into God’s word, we discover how to respond to it more fully.