Sermon, Trinity Sunday, 2025
This Sunday, we get a 2-for-1. The first part of this sermon discusses the importance of being precise in our language about God: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. This isn’t a reflection of how well we understand God, but is rather more about keeping us from simplifing God in heretical ways. The Creeds, and most particularly the Athanasian creed, were formulated over centuries to keep us from leaving the path of orthodoxy.
The second part of the sermon looks at the Old Testament lesson from Isaiah 6 and the Epistle lesson from Revelation 4 (and 5) which both provide insights into heavenly worship. It is our desire that our worship should mirror the worship we read about of those gathered around the Throne of God. If heavenly worship is liturgical, should not we also worship in this way?