Holy Trinity Anglican Podcast

Article XX: Of the Authority of the Church

Fr. Andrew's sermon on Article XX of The 39 Articles of Religion: Of the Authority of the Church, preached on the Sunday after Ascension Day (5.17.2026). "The church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith; and yet it is not lawful for the church to ordain anything that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the church be a witness and a keeper of Holy Writ, yet, as it ought not to decree anything against the same, so besides the same ought it not to enforce anything to be believed for necessity of salvation."

Sermon for Ascension Day, 2026

Fr. Andrew's sermon from Ascension Day (5.14.2026). We pray that you are blessed by the message. Lessons from Holy Scripture: 2 Kings 2.1-25; Acts 1.1-11; Mark 16.14-20.

Article XIX: Of the Church

Fr. Andrew's sermon on Article XIX of The 39 Articles of Religion: Of the Church, preached on the Fifth Sunday after Easter (5.10.2026). "The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same. As the Church of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch have erred; so also the Church of Rome hath erred, not only in their living and manner of ceremonies, but also in matters of faith."

Article XVIII: Of Obtaining Eternal Salvation Only by the Name of Christ

Fr. Andrew's sermon on Article XVIII of The 39 Articles of Religion: Of Obtaining Eternal Salvation Only by the Name of Christ, preached on the Fourth Sunday after Easter (5.3.2026). "They also are to be had accursed that presume to say that every man shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law and the light of nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out to us only the name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved."

Article XVII: Of Predestination and Election

Fr. Andrew's sermon on Article XVII of The 39 Articles of Religion: Of Predestination and Election, preached on the Third Sunday after Easter (4.26.2026). "Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby – before the foundations of the world were laid – he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour. Wherefore, they which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God be called according to God's purpose by his Spirit working in due season; they through grace obey the calling; they be justified freely; they be made sons of God by adoption; they be made like the image of his only-begotten Son Jesus Christ; they walk religiously in good works; and at length, by God's mercy, they attain to everlasting felicity. As the godly consideration of predestination and our election in Christ is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members, and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things, as well because it doth greatly establish and confirm their faith of eternal salvation to be enjoyed through Christ, as because it doth fervently kindle their love towards God; so, for curious and carnal persons, lacking the Spirit of Christ, to have continually before their eyes the sentence of God's predestination is a most dangerous downfall, whereby the devil doth thrust them either into desperation or into wretchlessness of most unclean living, no less perilous than desperation. Futhermore, we must receive God's promises in such wise as they be generally set forth to us in holy Scripture; and in our doings that will of God is to be followed which we have expressly declared unto us in the word of God."