Bishop Guernsey speaks to The Falls Church from Proverbs 25 and Matthew 5.

What are the Ten Commandments for? Just to obey a demanding God? No, they show us how to live in grace - the grace God gave the Israelites by bringing them to Himself out of Egypt on eagles' wings. The Law is a mirror that shows us our hearts and a path for us to walk on.

How can believers find "blessed assurance" when every circumstance mocks them with trials and troubles? St. Paul's climactic message in "the Great Eighth" (Romans 8) not only affirms the assurance of faith but also reveals the Gospel paradoxical power that transforms our troubles and sanctifies our sorrows. This is truly a "theology of suffering" that everyone needs to embrace.

The Rev, John Yates speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Romans 8.28-32.

There is no shame in not knowing how to pray - even the most mature sometimes simply do not how to bring their concerns to God, and what would be most pleasing to God. In this time the Holy Spirit will pray for us in accordance with the will of God.

The Rev. Sam Ferguson speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from

The Christian must learn to wait. God's great work in us has only just begun. We are "washed" in Christ's blood, yet "waiting" for the full blessing of new life that will be ours in New Earth.

When we are anxious and worry about the future, it is good to fortify ourselves with a review of the Bible’s teaching on hope. In Romans 8:24-25, Paul lays out four things to know and do: 1. We were saved in hope (24a). 2. We do not hope for what we see (24b). 3. We hope for what we do not see (25a). 4. We hope with endurance (25b). And beware: the two great enemies of hope, despair and presumption, are lurking around any hope we can manage. But also be consoled: God is at work in us to get us from our first beginning to our last end.

Life is hard. The Bible knows it. The Bible speaks to it. We have great hope in the redemption of our bodies: our resurrection.

Romans 8 gives great hope for creation, which groans while it waits for Christ and his people to be revealed.

The Rev. James Swynford speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Romans 8:19-22.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Romans 8:18.

The Rev. James Swynford speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Romans 8:18.

Romans 8 says we are children of God and fellow heirs with Christ. What does that mean? And what does it mean for us right now?

The Rev. Wright Wall speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Romans 8:16-17.

Because of Jesus’ death for us on the Cross, we can be adopted by our heavenly Father, made children of God and become inheritors of the immeasurable riches of His Kingdom.

The Rev. James Swynford speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Romans 8:14-15.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Romans 8:12-13.

The Rev. James Swynford speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Romans 8:12-13.

Our relationship with God changes forever when the Holy Spirit takes up residence in our life.

The Christian life is lived in, by and through the power of the Spirit. It is a supernatural –and natural – life. Too often we focus on the work of the Spirit at conversion, and at our resurrection, but neglect the Spirit’s work in our present, everyday lives. Paul tells the Roman Christians to “walk according to the Spirit.”

What does it mean to live of the flesh? What does it mean to live of the Spirit? What does it look like to submit to the Spirit?

Don’t believe something about yourself that Jesus refuses to say. Many Christians struggle unnecessarily with feelings of self-condemnation for their ongoing failure to live up to God’s standards. Romans 8 gives us great hope that we can move past self-condemnation into an assurance of our healing for this love and help.

The Rev. Wright Wall speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Romans 8:1-4.

The Right Rev. Martyn Minns, Bishop of CANA, speaks to The Falls Church from Matthew 5 during a service of Confirmation.

Along our Lenten way, looking ahead to the great drama of our redemption which we will shortly be celebrating at Holy Week and the Easter feast, we pause to sing a song of ascents which paradoxically begins “out of the depths.” How can that be? By waiting for the Lord. Why? Because he is God and we are not. Yes, but how? First, we wait actively, as St. Paul directs us in our capacity to set our minds on the Spirit and not on the flesh. Secondly, in our incapacity, we wait passively, like Lazarus. His contribution? It was twofold: he was dead and he stunk.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from Acts 1:1-11, sharing that God sometimes uses circumstances that seem disadvantageous to actually achieve his purposes.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church. God gives us his Spirit to help us do what he calls us to do.

We live in an age where God is expanding His kingdom one person at a time. Jesus chooses to use us to expand His kingdom by our actions and with our words. Three things to do to effectively tell others about the gospel of heaven: (1) Make time in your life to hang around with people that don’t know Jesus. (2) Think through your testimony and what your life was like before you met Christ, how you met Christ and what’s your life like since you met Christ. (3) Learn a simple illustration to explain the good news of the gospel of the kingdom of heaven.

In the gospels, when people recognized who Jesus was and came to Him in humility they were transformed. Like them we are called to recognize who Jesus is, to come to Him and to be transformed by Him. And having experienced Him, like those who experienced Him in the gospels we are called to bear witness by telling others what He has done for us.

The Rev. Bob Koth speaks to The Falls Church from John 15:12-17. Being a Christian is partnering with Christ in making God's love tangible. We do this by realizing the depth of Christ's love for us, and then fulfilling His mandate to love others.

The Rev. Robert Watkin speaks to The Falls Church from John 1:1-18. Jesus, as the Word made flesh, is the most supreme revelation of God, who became vulnerable for us and ever tabernacles among us as our ever-present God.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from 1 Peter 4:8-11. Peter gives explicit instructions on how to live in the Christian community, focusing on love and service. One way the community is to love is to be generous to each other and to be a good steward of God's gifts by using them for each other.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from 1 Peter 4:1-7. Growing up in Christ requires us to learn to think like Jesus - we are to learn to pray with a mind that is anchored in reality (not appearances) and a heart set on discovering and doing the will of God. This is particularly true in praying about how to handle our money.

Why is prayer important in a time of hardship, and, more than that, how do we pray? The Rev. Wright Wall speaks to The Falls Church from 1 Peter 4:1-7. We need to be self-controlled and think soberly so that we can pray as we ought to pray.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from Hebrews 9:27-28. This message was given at the 9 a.m. service and both 11:00 a.m. services.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from Hebrews 8:1-13. This message was given at the 9 a.m. service and both 11:00 a.m. services.

The Right Rev. FitzSimons Allison speaks to The Falls Church from 2 Corinthians 3:2-6. This message was given at the 9 a.m. and large 11:00 a.m. informal service.

The Rev. John Kurcina speaks to The Falls Church from Hebrews 6:13-20. This message was given at the 9 a.m. service and both 11:00 a.m. services.

The Right Rev. David Bena, Suffragan Bishop, speaks to The Falls Church from Hebrews 4:1-13. This message was given at the large 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. Confirmation services.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from Hebrews 3:7-19. This message was given at the 9 a.m. service and both 11:00 a.m. services.

Dr. Haddon Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Preaching at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, speaks to The Falls Church from Romans 4:1-8.

The Rev. Wright Wall speaks to The Falls Church from Romans 4:1-8. This message was given at both the Saturday 5 p.m. service and the Sunday 11 a.m. Rite II Holy Communion service held in the Historic Church.

Timothy Haynes speaks to The Falls Church from Romans 12 during the Sunday evening 5:30 p.m. service.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from Ephesians 2:1-10. NOTE: This message followed a reading from John 3:1-8.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from Luke 16:1-13, the parable of The Rich Employer.

The Right Rev. Martyn Minns, missionary bishop for the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, speaks to The Falls Church on the Sunday of Pentecost, at a service of Confirmation. He speaks from Romans 8, about God's Holy Spirit as an "power source" for living.

The Rev. Bob Koth speaks to The Falls Church from Romans 8:9-17, on the eve of the feast of Pentecost, about God sending his Holy Spirit to dwell within believers.

The Rev. Kathleen Christopher speaks to The Falls Church from Romans 6:1-11. This message was given at the Rite II Holy Eucharist held at 11 a.m. in the Historic Church.

The Rev. John Kurcina speaks to The Falls Church from Romans 6:1-11 about living in light of being a New Creation in Christ. This message was given at the Saturday 5 p.m. family service.

The Rev. Bill Haley, pastor of TFC daughter congregation St. Brendan's, Washington DC, speaks to The Falls Church from 1 Corinthians 15:50-58. This message talks about the real rewards waiting in Heaven -- and on the New Earth -- for the Faithful.

The Rt. Rev. David Bena speaks to The Falls Church on the occasion of his visitation about acting as Godly Shepherds in God's Kingdom.

On Pentecost, Kathleen Christopher spoke to The Falls Church about Mother's Day, Baptism, prayer and The Holy Spirit.

A sermon given to the Falls Church by the Rev. Dr. Rick Wright on April 6th, 2008 about Esther and prayer.

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