23rd Sunday After Pentecost 2025

It is fitting that the last chapter of the last Book of the Old Testament should speak about the Last Day, the Day of the Lord. And this as we approach the end of the church year. We are speaking of the day when our Lord Jesus will come again at the end of the age. He will come again to judge the living and the dead. The Prophet Malachi speaks of that Day both as a fiery blaze reducing things to cinders, and as a beautiful sunrise with healing in its wings. Which is it? And as the Day draws near, do you give it any thought? If you do, is it a joyful, thrilling thought? Is it an uneasy one? Or is it terrifying?