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4. The Lords Prayer - Adult Catechism.mp3 by St. Aidan's Anglican Church, KC

18. True & False Prophecy - Fr. Michael Flowers 10.06.24 by St. Aidan's Anglican Church, KC

House Communities at Gift Giving (12:3-8) I entitled this section house communities at gift giving to emphasize the original context for sharing spiritual gifts and developing the relational culture of Christian community. Paul’s reciprocal pronouns, his “one another’s”, are the building blocks of his house churches. And Romans 12 mentions three of them. The context is small house churches as noted in Romans 16:3-5, across the Gentile world. “Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus… Greet also the church that meets in their home.” 12:3-5 Paul is beginning to describe what a transformed charismatic church might look like. He’s noted that transformation comes from renewing one’s mind in order to discern God’s will. He explains how to begin this renewal by addressing a necessary mindset, a self-perception. He uses a word for thinking four times. 3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober

Your Sons and Daughters Shall Prophesy

2 - Baptism - Adult Catechism - Bennett Potter & Micah Long 9.22.24 by St. Aidan's Anglican Church, KC

1. Intro & Baptism - Catechism - Bennett Potter & Micah Long 9.15.24 by St. Aidan's Anglican Church, KC

Image by Anita Powers (Pentecost Banner at St. Aidan's) Romans 12 describes Paul's vision of Gospel outcomes. He moves from how God has worked through salvation history, arriving at the coming of Jesus in his incarnation, life, death, resurrection, ascension, and the sending of the Holy Spirit. In terms of catholicity, how the Gospel becomes the life-giving seeds for the healing of the world, he concludes with how Jew and Gentile have both been assigned to disobedience so that GOD CAN HAVE MERCY ON ALL! Romans 12 sets forth how redeemed people can be transformed and minister the grace of God via a diversity of gifts fostering a community of love. Metanoia (repentance) leads to metamorphosis (transformation) and yields a growing transformed body of believers, captivated by love eternal on earth. Jesus is Lord over the metaverse!

Romans 12 I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 4 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

1. Intro To Spiritual Formation Of The Family - Lindsay Powers 08.24.24 by St. Aidan's Anglican Church, KC

2. Meditation On John 15 - Eric Rainwater 08.24.24 by St. Aidan's Anglican Church, KC

3. Corporate Worship As Christian Formation In Children Julie Smith 08.24.24- by St. Aidan's Anglican Church, KC

4. Home As The "Little Church" - Joey Panella 08.24.24 by St. Aidan's Anglican Church, KC

5. Reflections On Faith & Ordinary Life - Lindsay Powers 08.24.24 by St. Aidan's Anglican Church, KC

6. Faith, Parenting & Fruitbearing - Testimony By Sharon Mugg 08.24.24 by St. Aidan's Anglican Church, KC

7. Faith, Parenting & Fruitbearing - Anita Powers' Testimony 08.24.24 by St. Aidan's Anglican Church, KC

Ephesians 4:1-6 I, therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager (being diligent) to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 4:25-32 25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fit

As we locate ourselves in the entirety of Romans 8, it seems clear that God calls Christians to be where the world is in pain so that in them, God, by his Spirit, may be where the world is in pain. Let’s look at a few ways to translate Romans 8:28: And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. ESV In everything, God works for good with those who love him. RSV We know, in fact, that God works all things together for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. NT Wright Drawing from NT Wright: The verse doesn’t say that ‘all things work together for good to those who love God’, which seems to give God’s people a kind of inside privilege of knowing that things will turn out how they want them to. I think a better translation is the NT Wright’s and the RSV, which assigns God as the subject of the main verb: it is God who is ‘working,’ rather than the ‘all things.’ This avoids a sort of Deistic determi

Mark’s account of Jesus in Gethsemane, 14:32-42, vividly illustrates what the heart of Romans 8 is getting at. In fact, the only time Jesus uses the Aramaic, Abba, Father, is in Mark 14:36. Paul, in Romans 8:15, links these two scenes together as Jesus imprints a vocational pattern of lament for the state of the world, in labor pains, until His final return. The whole created order groans for the final consummation of God's Kingdom coming to earth. Not only the whole world, but we ourselves groan as we wait eagerly for the restoration of all things. Likewise, the Spirit groans with inarticulation sounds beyond words for the same end. Our vocation of groaning is a lament to be continued until the final eschaton of all things made new. We suffer with him in groaning laments in the Spirit. Romans 8:28, in context, provides a synergy, a participation in the Spirit as we intercede, as we lament, we find ourselves in union with God in our sufferings. Two excellent translations of Romans 8:28: NT Wright We

After discovering a technical issue with the original congregational recording, I re-recorded it alone. I wanted to salvage the content, though it lost the dynamic of preaching to a congregation. Such is life in this present technological age! Thanks be to God.

Romans 8:1-11 We are flying high over Romans 8, limiting my focus to Paul’s contrast between living in the flesh and living in the Spirit. Understanding and participating in these realities will determine how we live as Christians, and better understand our struggles and longings for greater devotion to the Lord. Paul uses two repeating NOUNS and two repeating PREPOSITIONS. The nouns are flesh and spirit The prepositions are in and according to When Paul uses either of the nouns, flesh or spirit, with the preposition in, he refers to a realm or sphere of existence. Wherever he uses either of the nouns, flesh or spirit, with the preposition according to, he refers to a way of life indicative of the Simply put, there are only two realms of human existence: in the flesh and in the Spirit, and there are only two ways of living: according to the flesh and according to the Spirit. These two spheres and modes are complete opposites; one ends in death, and the other ends in life. Here’s one of the main