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, 120Continue reading “The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
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Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Jeremiah 17:5-10 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 Luke 6:17-26 Psalm 1 When I sit in the pews or, in our online world, when I plug in my headphones and electronically join a congregation elsewhere, I don’t mind disagreeing with the preacher. I am not among those who see critiquing sermons as a form of impiety.Continue reading “Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Psalm 119:1-8 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 Matthew 5:21-37 Let’s begin this morning with an exercise. I’d like to invite you to do a mental inventory of those occasions when you have responded to another person in anger. Maybe the anger came in a flash, as it does sometimes when you areContinue reading “Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany by The Rev. Martin Elfert”