Lessons: Genesis 1:1-5 Acts 19:1-7 Mark 1:4-11 Psalm 29 https://youtu.be/ZNkne6tapcA?t=1794
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Second Sunday after Christmas by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Jeremiah 31:7-14 Ephesians 1:3-6,15-19a Matthew 2:13-15,19-23 Psalm 84 or 84:1-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9sq1tVCigo&feature=youtu.be My public school career began a handful of years before the video cassette became commonplace. And so my early experience with watching films in a classroom featured a member of the AV Club rolling a cart with a projector on it into theContinueContinue reading “Second Sunday after Christmas by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Jeanne Kaliszewski
Lessons: 1 Kings 3:5-12 Psalm 119:129-136 Romans 8:26-39 Matthew 13:31-33,44-52 https://youtu.be/aWE-gOfGykE
Third Sunday in Lent by Suzy Jeffreys
Lessons: Exodus 17:1-7 Romans 5:1-11 John 4:5-42 Psalm 95 The Samaritan woman can see someone at the well as she approaches…a man, she realizes, as she gets closer. The text doesn’t say, but given the time of day it’s not unlikely that they would have been the only two people at the well. Most would’veContinueContinue reading “Third Sunday in Lent by Suzy Jeffreys”
The Second Sunday in Lent by The Rev. Jeanne Kaliszewski
Lessons: Genesis 12:1-4a Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 John 3:1-17 Psalm 121 Life begins in water. Life begins in the dark. This is true biologically. Our lives all begin in the water and darkness of our mother’s bodies. We are water creatures first, floating with eyes sealed shut as our bodies are knit together cell byContinueContinue reading “The Second Sunday in Lent by The Rev. Jeanne Kaliszewski”
The First Sunday in Lent by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 Romans 5:12-19 Matthew 4:1-11 Psalm 32 This is the story of the man, the woman, the snake, and God. God has set up this garden, this paradise. In it, there is everything a human being could need, everything that a human being could want. The weather is so pleasant and theContinueContinue reading “The First Sunday in Lent by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Ash Wednesday by Holly Puckett
Lessons: Joel 2:1-2,12-17 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 Psalm 103 Have you ever had the chance to work with an improv group? They have this technique for working together, a way to communicate and support each other live onstage in order to move the action forward. It’s called YES AND. Let me give you anContinueContinue reading “Ash Wednesday by Holly Puckett”
The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Deuteronomy 30:15-20 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 Matthew 5:21-37 Psalm 119:1-8 It is very near the end of the Israelites’ journey through the wilderness, very near the end of the forty years that the twelve tribes have spent wandering and searching, now lost and now found, always somehow guided by God. And the aged Moses, 120ContinueContinue reading “The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany by Robb Beck
Lessons: Isaiah 58:1-9a, [9b-12] 1 Corinthians 2:1-12, [13-16] Matthew 5:13-20 Psalm 112:1-9, (10)
The Presentation of Our Lord by The Rev. Jeanne Kaliszewski
Lessons: Malachi 3:1-4 Hebrews 2:14-18 Luke 2:22-40 Psalm 84 It feels a little like Christmas to me right now. Maybe it’s the candles. Maybe it is the story we heard from Luke this morning, this story of the baby Jesus. Because we really only encounter baby Jesus at Christmastime. We even have on whiteContinueContinue reading “The Presentation of Our Lord by The Rev. Jeanne Kaliszewski”