June 1, 2025 Acts 16:16-34; John 17:20-26 Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them. This is an interesting…

May 4, 2025 Acts 9:1-6; John 21:1-19 He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” Saul was returning from obtaining letters from the high priest in Jerusalem permitting him to extend the persecution of Jesus’ followers. But along the way back to Damascus, he was struck down by a sudden overwhelming…

April 13, 2024 Luke 19:28-40 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, order your disciples to stop.” He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.” This Sunday is Palm Sunday. We heard about the triumphal entry into Jerusalem. We heard about Jesus riding a colt into the gates. But I feel compelled…

April 6, 2025 Isaiah 43:16-21; John 12:1-8 Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? In our reading, something new is about to happen, something will change. The old things should not be remembered, the former things forgotten. The Book of…

March 15, 2025 Luke 1:26-38 Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?” When you heard this reading this morning, perhaps you thought to yourselves, why exactly are we listening to a Christmas reading? Mary hearing about her pending and unexpected pregnancy. But there is a reason. We are in the month of April. Count nine…

March 16, 2025 Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Luke 13:31-35 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates….” We hear about covenants frequently in the Bible, even though that word is not always used. Sometimes it is mentioned in terms of statutes…

March 2, 2025 Exodus 34:29-35; Luke 9:28-36 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him. Moses had been atop Mount Sinai speaking with God. The mountain was sacred because it shone with divine light and Moses had climbed up into that light. He comes down resplendent, much…

February 23, 2025 Genesis 45:3-11, 15; Luke 6:27-38 Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. This formula is common within Jesus’ teachings. By inverting expectations, the disciples were being asked to move away from traditional ideas. Religious…

Luke 6:17-26 He came down with them and stood on a level place with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases, and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And everyone…