Lessons: Isaiah 52:7-10 Hebrews 1:1-4,(5-12) John 1:1-14 Psalm 98 Christmas brings us joy, but is anyone else tired right now? The demands of visiting, travel, and gift-giving associated with Christmas, combined with the ordinary obligations of life, can drain the wonder and meaning from the season and leave you weary. Christmas Day may start to feelContinueContinue reading “Christmas Day by Holly Puckett”
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Christmas Eve by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Isaiah 9:2-7 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:1-14(15-20) Psalm 96 It is Christmas Eve and I would like to risk doing something with you. I would like to risk entering into what might be a heady or an intellectual exercise. Although it is a heady exercise with a purpose. I’d like to wonder with you tonightContinueContinue reading “Christmas Eve by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Third Sunday of Advent by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Zephaniah 3:14-20 Philippians 4:4-7 Luke 3:7-18 Canticle 9 Have you ever had the experience of encountering the same words at two different times in your life and hearing them in a totally different way? For myself, I think about the statement: Having kids changes your life. Before I had children, I heard those wordsContinueContinue reading “Third Sunday of Advent by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Second Sunday of Advent by The Rev. Corbet Clark
Lessons: Baruch 5:1-9 Philippians 1:3-11 Luke 3:1-6 Canticle 4 or 16 Are you basically an optimist or basically a pessimist? Do you tend to see the glass as half empty or half full? John the Baptist seems to be a bit of both – both optimist and pessimist. I tend to be a worrier myself,ContinueContinue reading “Second Sunday of Advent by The Rev. Corbet Clark”
First Sunday of Advent by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Jeremiah 33:14-16 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 Luke 21:25-36 Psalm 25:1-9 Be on guard, Jesus says, so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life. Or that day will catch you unexpectedly, like a trap. It is the start of Advent, the start of a newContinueContinue reading “First Sunday of Advent by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Last Sunday after Pentecost Christ the King by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 Psalm 93 Revelation 1:4b-8 John 18:33-37 We are in the bustle and the heat that is Jerusalem, the most distant and forgotten corner of the Roman Empire. Inside the headquarters of the occupying forces, Pontius Pilate sits at his desk. Pilate is thirty-five years old. He is a mid-level government bureaucratContinueContinue reading “Last Sunday after Pentecost Christ the King by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Daniel 12:1-3 Psalm 16 Hebrews 10:11-14 (15-18) 19-25 Mark 13:1-8 What do we do when we hear a reading like the ones that we encounter today in Daniel in and Mark? Daniel says: Michael shall arise. There will be anguish. Many of those who sleep in the dust will awake, some toContinueContinue reading “Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Phil Brochard
Lessons: 1 Kings 17:8-16 Psalm 146 Hebrews 9:24-28 Mark 12:38-44 SOLACE IN OUR FIERCE LANDSCAPES RIGHTEOUS APPEARANCES GIVING WHAT YOU’LL NEVER MISS A POOL IN THE DESERT GIVE FOR LOVE SOLACE IN OUR FIERCE LANDSCAPES Near the turn of this century, the theologian Belden Lane wrote a provocative book called The Solace of FierceContinueContinue reading “Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Phil Brochard”
All Souls & All Saints Sunday by Robb Beck
Lessons: Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9 Psalm 24 Revelation 21:1-6a John 11:32-44