Acts
8: 26–40; Psalm 22: 24–30; I John 4: 7–21; John 15: 1–8
This is the homily given
at St. John’s, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania by Fr. Gene Tucker on Sunday, April 29,
2018.
“HELP
US, DEAR LORD!”
(Homily text: John 15: 1–8)
Help
us, dear Lord!
That
request might characterize everything we are doing here at St. John’s this
morning.
Help us, dear Lord!: Help us to know you as you are revealed in
the pages of sacred Scripture.
Help us, dear Lord!: Help us to know you as you are revealed in
the Body and the Blood of Jesus Christ under the elements of the Holy
Eucharist.
Help us, dear Lord!: As we struggle to be changed more and more
into your image and likeness, that we may be images of God (The Latin phrase
is: Imago
Dei) in all that we do and in all that we say in the world around us, each
and every day.
Help us, dear Lord!: Help us to support one another in our walk
with God, lifting up those who stumble or fall, sustaining and supporting those
who are struggling, and kindling in the hearts of those whose faith has grown
cold a new fire for God.
Help us, dear Lord!: To live into the
reality that we have died with Christ in our own baptisms, that we may do our
part to bring Amelia Ruth to come to know you personally and deeply.
Help us, dear Lord!: To be so grafted into the vine of Christ
Jesus that we may bear good and bountiful fruit for the kingdom of God in our
time and in our place. (John 15: 1 – 8)
AMEN.
