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Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Corbet Clark

Lessons Job 23:1-9, 16-17Psalm 22:1-15Hebrews 4:12-16Mark 10:17-31 https://youtu.be/sAnOiocn1vY If someone asked you, “What is God like,” how would you respond? I think we all have asense of how we might describe God, based on our own ideas and experience, but perhapsthe most honest answer might be, “I don’t know.” I think we understand that knowingContinueContinue reading “Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Corbet Clark”

Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert

Lessons: Isaiah 35:4-7aPsalm 146James 2:1-10, [11-13], 14-17Mark 7:24-37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur8DEyyLl6E Even if you have studied just a tiny bit of church history, it’s hard to read from James’ epistle without thinking of Martin Luther. Luther famously hated James. He thought that it was a mistake that James had made it into the Bible. James was, asContinueContinue reading “Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”

Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost by The Rev. Doctor Liz Klein

Lessons: Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9Psalm 15James 1:17-27Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFyFFFwsx38 Sermon for August 29th 2021 Pentecost Proper 17 Year B Track 2 Gospel Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 at Grace Memorial  How do we nourish our hearts and souls and recognize God’s Grace, the Goodness Glue?  Given by Deacon Doctor Elizabeth Klein Good morning!!  A warmContinueContinue reading “Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost by The Rev. Doctor Liz Klein”

Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert

Lessons: Joshua 24:1-2a,14-18Psalm 34:15-22Ephesians 6:10-20John 6:56-69 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDQ5YMp7An8 A few years ago I was interning as a trainer at the College for Congregational Development just north of us in the Diocese of Olympia. I love the College. I love its curriculum, love the ways that it gives you tools to think about and to celebrate aContinueContinue reading “Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert

Lessons: Proverbs 9:1-6Psalm 34:9-14Ephesians 5:15-20John 6:51-58 https://youtu.be/u9HmNUX_0yQ?t=1936 Does not Wisdom callFrom the heights,On the Way?At each crossroadsWisdom is taking her stand.To you, O people,Wisdom calls,And her cry is to all who live. Music and words by the Reverend Sylvia Miller-Mutia, based on Proverbs 8:1-4 110 or so years later, we are back under a tent.ContinueContinue reading “Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”

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