A Knight's Blog

There is custom in Sweden called “Swedish Death Cleaning,” where a person cleans out all the excess and junk so that when they die their family is not burdened by it. There is a real pandemic in this world of hoarding, of keeping unnecessary trinkets and possessions for “just in case.” According to the Seven Deadly Sins, a manifestation of greed is to hoard material things and objects. There is a unnatural desire to hold on to a possession even when you do not look at it for years nor use it.  Henry David Thoreau, who was not a theologian but had great wisdom on the temporal world said, “possessions possess you, they own you. A man who owns a cow is controlled by the cow because He must get up and milk it and tend to it with many hard hours,” (Walden: Economy),  and “ Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them." (Walden: Economy, 1854) . Thoreau wasn’t urging farmers to stop collecting milk or shirk their duties, he was m

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was poured out as an offering, a sacrifice for our sins. His crucifixion fixed the claims against us and gave us His righteousness, “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Christus Jesu has washed us in the Blood, He has sanctified and justified us on for all time, “Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!” (Romans 5:9), “For that which He died, He died to sin once for all; but that which He lives, He lives to God,” (Romans 6:10), “And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all ti

Song:  ——- “O Holy Night 🎵 ”  ————————- Readings:  ————— John: 1-17 The Word of God  Luke 1:1-80 Magnificant and Foretelling Luke 2:1-53 Birth of Jesus Matthew 1:1-25: Jesus Born  Matthew 2:1-23 Magi and Flight to Egypt —————- Homily:  He Came Not like the False gods —————— Closing Prayer: ——————— “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” (Luke 4:15)  “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” (Luke 4:15 KJV) ———————- Merry Christmas! I have prepared another message and readings for Christmas Day. I hope this blesses you.  Readings:  “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2  He was in the beginning with God. 3  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4  In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5  And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness