Year B: Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
“David said to Saul, ‘Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.’ Saul replied, ‘You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.’ But David said to […]
Read MoreYear B - Fourth Sunday in Pentecost (Proper 6 (11)
“Then Samuel left for Ramah, but Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul. The Lord said to Samuel, ‘How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have […]
Read MoreYear B: Third Sunday after Pentecost
“So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. They said to him, ‘You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have.’ But when they said, ‘Give us a king to lead us,’ this displeased Samuel; […]
Read MoreYear B - Second Sunday in Lent
“For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. But we have […]
Read MoreYear B: Trinity Sunday - First Sunday After Pentecost
J.R.R. Tolkien, the brilliant mind behind The Lord of the Rings trilogy, was enchanted with words. It started early in his life. When he was just a boy growing up near Birmingham, England, he would watch the trains from Wales chug through the countryside. The cars on the trains bore Welsh words describing the contents. […]
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