Year B - First Sunday of Advent - November 29b, 2020
O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence— 2as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence! 3When you did awesome deeds that we did […]
Read MoreYear A - Reign of Christ - Proper 29 (34)
31“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33and he will put the sheep at […]
Read MoreYear A Proper 28 (33)
Matthew 25:14-3014 For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; 15to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16The one who had received the five talents went off at once and […]
Read MoreYear A: Proper 27 (32) Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost
Matthew 25:1-13 25“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 2Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; 4but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5As the bridegroom was delayed, all […]
Read MoreYear A - All Saints Day - November 1, 2020
We are celebrating All Saints Day today and we are just two days away from a presidential election. Over the last year, we have learned a new term “social distancing,” although to be honest, I prefer to think of it as “physical distancing.” We can still stay connected socially and spiritually if we are intentional […]
Read MoreYear A - First Sunday after Christmas Day
13Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” 14Then Joseph got up, took the child […]
Read MoreFourth Sunday of Advent Year A
Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah* took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly. […]
Read MoreThird Sunday of Advent - Year A
Many Protestants don’t quite know what to do with Mary. If we get too close or talk about her too much some fear we’re being too Catholic. I grew up hearing, “Catholics worship Mary,” Actually, that is not true at all. Catholics and many Protestants honor Mary and find in her a model for Christian […]
Read MoreYear A – Second Sunday of Advent.
Whenever I visit my friend “Aunt Beth” she always says, “Welcome, welcome, welcome, now you make yourself at home.” How good those words feel? Paul knew something about how good the word “welcome” can feel. Before he was “Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles”, he was “Saul, persecutor of Christians.” Acts reports that he was […]
Read MoreYear A: First Sunday of Advent.
Happy New Year! Now lest you think you’ve missed a month or that I have lost my calendar, no it’s not January 1st. It is December 1st. But for us who follow the Church Year, it is a new year. For Christians who follow the church’s calendar and with it frequently, the three-year set of […]
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