Lessons: Deuteronomy 18:15-201 Corinthians 8:1-13Mark 1:21-28Psalm 111 What do you expect it to be like when you meet Jesus? And then: what is it like when you actually meet Jesus? We are early on the Gospel of Mark. Mark is the shortest Gospel, it is probably the oldest, and it is the one that tellsContinueContinue reading “Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
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Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Jeremiah 1:4-10 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Luke 4:21-30 Psalm 71:1-6 Have you heard of the psychological phenomenon called Impostor Syndrome? Impostor Syndrome – and I mentioned this in passing a few weeks back on the Feast of the Baptism of Jesus, I’d like to go a little deeper this morning – is the fear, sometimesContinueContinue reading “Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Isaiah 40:21-31 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 Mark 1:29-39 Psalm 147:1-12, 21c It’s the Sabbath, Jesus has gone to the Synagogue (as is his habit), and there he is teaching. And the people who are listening to him, Mark tells us in his tantalising brevity, are astonished because he teaches as one having authority.ContinueContinue reading “Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Micah 6:1-8 Psalm 15 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 Matthew 5:1-12 Today and over the next three Sundays we will listen as Jesus shares with us what the late Leonard Cohen called, “the staggering account of the Sermon on the Mount – which I don’t pretend to understand at all.” I love that line.ContinueContinue reading “Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Stephen Whitney-Wise
Lessons: Jeremiah 1:4-10 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Luke 4:21-30 Psalm 71:1-6