St. Jude's Anglican Church Clay Thompson-Rector

Longing. We have a longing for community, proximity, peace, blessedness and righteousness. And our experience in this world, on account the evil in her that flows from our own hearts also, reminds us that if we do have it here, it is in small portions and temporal. Zechariah's prophecy speaks to this longing. And Jesus Christ satisfies it. This sermon was preached on the 2nd Sunday after the Epiphany at St Jude's Anglican Church in Huntersville.

This is an audio recording of my article in the first newsletter of the year, concerning the Epiphany of Jesus Christ as Savior of the world. This feast is held yearly on Jan 6th according to western Christian tradition.

This recording concludes our lectures and discussion on the Book of Revelation. Join us for reading of the final chapters followed by a brief lecture and some Q&A (which always seem to come back to the relationship between faith and works :).

Seasons such as Advent are pedagogical, they teach us by relating our liturgical life and language to the longings of our hearts. Having begun the story afresh we begin with preparation; making ready for the coming of the Lord.

In accordance with our teaching and preaching over the last few months, we encounter readings from Daniel and Revelation that conclude the Church's liturgical retelling of the Christian story with Christ the King Sunday. Here we exalt the King of kings and Lord of lord's. We dream of his reign and fan into flame a longing for his appearing in our hearts.

We are quickly approaching the end of our lectures from Dr Nerness on the book of Revelation. Listen in as we dive deeper in the imagery found not only in these chapters of Revelation but in other apocalyptic works in the Word of God.