Why We Exist
Worship: Our Essence
Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.
The Westminster divines, in the 17th century, gave us the classic statement of man’s purpose. C.S. Lewis taught us that the two are really one: Our enjoyment of God expresses itself in giving Him glory. (Read more)
For more on worship, listen to the archived radio series "Lift Up Your Hearts," with Rev. Fowler and Rev. Jonathan Trebilco, Saint Francis Anglican Church, Spring, TX.
The Westminster divines, in the 17th century, gave us the classic statement of man’s purpose. C.S. Lewis taught us that the two are really one: Our enjoyment of God expresses itself in giving Him glory. (Read more)
For more on worship, listen to the archived radio series "Lift Up Your Hearts," with Rev. Fowler and Rev. Jonathan Trebilco, Saint Francis Anglican Church, Spring, TX.
The Scriptures: Our Foundation
A pagan man in a marriage that appeared doomed finally relented and went with his Christian wife to a counselor. In one of their sessions he posed a question he was sure would stymie his wife:
“How do you even know who you’ll be married to in heaven?” (Read more)
“How do you even know who you’ll be married to in heaven?” (Read more)
Sacrament: Our Union
In the beginning, Adam owed God. An understanding of sacrament begins in that beginning. A sacrament is a visible representation of an invisible reality. The world is a sacrament; it reveals its Creator. And in the beginning that Creator declared it “very good.”
God gave Adam all the creation as a sacrament, a representation of His provision for him. (Read more)
God gave Adam all the creation as a sacrament, a representation of His provision for him. (Read more)
Liturgy: Our Pageant
Liturgy allows His people to worship the God of order in an orderly way. It lets us enter into His purpose in history of restoring peace to a world drunk on sin. It grants us a foretaste of glory divine.
We worship according to a liturgy because it plunges us into the deep traditions of our faith and carries us to the heights where our King sits on His throne. It sweeps us up in the old, old story of God and His creation and His redemption of it. (Read more)
We worship according to a liturgy because it plunges us into the deep traditions of our faith and carries us to the heights where our King sits on His throne. It sweeps us up in the old, old story of God and His creation and His redemption of it. (Read more)
Prayer: Our Connection
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer had his hands full. It was the middle of the 16th century and the Reformation was shaking the ground in the Christian West. Cranmer was managing warring Roman Catholic and Protestant factions within the English royal family and maneuvering through a treacherous political climate that would turn him into a charred skeleton bound to a stake.
On the theological front, too, he was trying to strike a delicate balance. The question: how to structure a nation’s prayer life? (Read more)
On the theological front, too, he was trying to strike a delicate balance. The question: how to structure a nation’s prayer life? (Read more)
Our Worship Service
The beauty of traditional Anglican worship finds expression in our Service of Holy Communion. which we celebrate each Lord's Day (preceded by Morning Prayer on fifth Sundays). We use the Book of Common Prayer of the Reformed Episcopal Church, which follows closely the 1928 BCP.
Click here for a sample service leaflet.
Click here for a sample service leaflet.