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Welcome, and thank you for visiting Saints Andrew & Matthias online. We hope that our website highlights the wide variety of worship, fellowship and service opportunities available. Please feel free to read more about our church on this site, or come in for a visit. We would love to greet you and share with you our love for Jesus Christ and for you, our neighbor.
Our Mission
We believe that the door to salvation is always open and so are the doors to our church. Our mission is to be fully devoted to Jesus by opening our arms to those in search of the truth. We show God’s love and concern for our fellow man at every opportunity. Through works of charity and opening our doors to listen and love, we feel that we are walking in the footsteps of Jesus Christ.
Prayers for Our Troops
Our church offers prayers for servicemen and women at every Morning Prayer or Evening Prayer service.
PRAYER FOR ALL IN THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY
O Almighty Lord God, who neither slumberest nor sleepest; Protect and assist, we beseech thee, all those who at home or abroad, by land, by sea, or in the air, are serving this country, that they, being armed with thy defense, may be preserved evermore in all perils; and being filled with wisdom and girded with strength, may do their duty to thy honour and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
Our Services
Sunday Services
Morning Prayer 9:15 AM
Holy Communion 10:30 AM
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December & January
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CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE 11:15 PM
CHRISTMAS DAY SERVICE 10:00 AM
Rt. Rev. David T. Hustwick
Rector
Rev. Paul Henderson
Assistant
Mr. Chris Jacoby
Verger
Prayer For Our Police
Almighty God, we beseech thee to pour thy blessing upon our country's police. Strengthen and protect them in all danger. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
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This Week's Sermon
Advent II
My wife and I always toss a coin to settle our disagreements. If the coin comes down, she wins, but if it stays suspended in air forever, then I win.
Saint Paul in his letter to the early Christians in Rome was writing to a group that had a lot of problems with those from without who were against them. They also however had conflicts within their group that Saint Paul felt needed to be addressed in his epistle to them.
Rom. 15:7 “Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.”
The membership of these early Roman congregations was very mixed. There were people from various backgrounds from many different parts of Rome's vast empire. They were very different from each other in culture, education, race, and social standing.
These differences were bound to cause some misunderstandings.
Also, human nature being what it is, some of those in the group were going to feel that they were superior to some of the others.
Paul reminds them that as Christ bestowed His grace upon them all, both Jew and gentile, that they should all be like-minded and receive one another in love – and together praise and glorify God.
During Advent each year, we are reminded, as we prepare to celebrate Christ's birth, that he came that first time to redeem us from sin and reconcile us to our Heavenly Father.
We know that He suffered and died for us on the cross.
We know that He did this not for just you and me, but for all mankind.
He did this for us in spite of our weaknesses and our shortcomings.
None of us deserved this great love that Christ's sacrifice of the cross showed toward us. We all owe thanks to God for His wonderful grace.
We should therefore praise God, not only with our voices, but by showing love for each other. We as Christians need to live together in unity.
We need to be forgiving of each others faults and frailties, as our Heavenly Father has so wonderfully forgiven us.
While Christians may disagree with each other from time to time, we need to always remember that our forgiving of others is not an option, but a necessity.
As Jesus tells us in St. Matthew's Gospel, (Matthew 6:14-15), “For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
And in St. Mark's Gospel he tells us, (Mark 11:25), And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."
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