Lessons: Isaiah 40:1-11 2 Peter 3:8-15a Mark 1:1-8 Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxspNfyswn8
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The First Sunday of Advent by the Reverend Martin Elfert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH6kt_4ktSI&feature=youtu.be Isaiah 64:1-91 Corinthians 1:3-9Mark 13:24-37Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18 In the beginning was the apocalypse. One of the weirdest things in church (and there are a lot of weird things to choose from in church) is that the church year always begins with apocalypse. The long season that we call ordinary time comes to an end,ContinueContinue reading “The First Sunday of Advent by the Reverend Martin Elfert”
Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Zephaniah 1:7,12-18Psalm 90:1-121 Thessalonians 5:1-11Matthew 25:14-30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9xn7L3TNIE&feature=youtu.be Of all the stories that Jesus tells, there are few or maybe none that I find more confusing and more troubling than the one that we just heard. This is the story that is sometimes titled in Bibles: The Parable of the Talents. And I reckon thatContinueContinue reading “Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
All Saints Sunday by The Rev. Dick Toll
Lessons: Revelation 7:9-17Psalm 34:1-10, 221 John 3:1-3Matthew 5:1-12 https://youtu.be/VIuQ2xjq2gw?t=2755 Today is All Saints’ Day on the calendar. You have just listened to the Beatitudes which represents the teaching of Jesus as he spoke to the hearts of people…people that surrounded him on the Mount of Beatitudes at the edge of the Sea of Galilee. IContinueContinue reading “All Saints Sunday by The Rev. Dick Toll”
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Isaiah 45:1-7Psalm 96:1-9, (10-13)1 Thessalonians 1:1-10Matthew 22:15-22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL0EjJU5qWs&feature=youtu.be&t=2023 The lectionary, the schedule of readings that we follow Sunday by Sunday, continues to take us in a sequential way through the Gospel of Matthew. We have listened for a bunch of weeks running as Jesus has told us short stories. And it is apparent thatContinueContinue reading “Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Isaiah 25:1-9Psalm 23Philippians 4:1-9Matthew 22:1-14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5rgtqHFPjw We are in the middle of a run of stories by Jesus. The lectionary, the schedule of readings that we follow across the year, is taking us Sunday by Sunday through the Gospel of Matthew as Jesus tells us one parable or one folk tale after another. OnContinueContinue reading “Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Jonah 3:10-4:11Psalm 145:1-8Philippians 1:21-30Matthew 20:1-16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMEhm_Nvn28&t=316s If you are listening to this sermon from California or the middle and southern part of Cascadia – Cascadia being that the massive watershed that extends from British Columbia down through Oregon – you have spent a good part of this week underneath an orange and terrifying sky.ContinueContinue reading “Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Isaiah 51:1-6Psalm 138Romans 12:1-8Matthew 16:13-20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_vVwqS8RDU Back when I was first working as a stagehand at the start if the 1990s, I had a colleague whose driver’s license said Michael but whom we all knew as Woody. I don’t know if Woody liked being called Woody, I don’t know if it was a nameContinueContinue reading “Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost by Ben Snead
Lesson: Isaiah 56:1,6-8Psalm 67Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32Matthew 15: (10-20), 21-28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmqhWEP6uMc
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: 1 Kings 19:9-18 Psalm 85:8-13 Romans 10:5-15 Matthew 14:22-33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxhz5bQQDlU Peace Be Still. Jesus in the middle of the storm. Jesus in the middle of the storm is a story that we hear six times across the Gospels. Maybe, way back when, this was two stories, two encounters with Jesus, one in whichContinueContinue reading “Tenth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”