Luke 7:1-10
“I am not worthy to have you come under my roof”
Ninth Sunday after Epiphany C
“I am not worthy to have you come under my roof”
Ninth Sunday after Epiphany C
“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you”
Ninth Sunday after Epiphany C
“then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy”
Ninth Sunday after Epiphany C
“when foreigners come and pray toward this house, then hear in heaven your dwelling place”
Ninth Sunday after Epiphany C
Late at night, meeting in secret, a church full of slaves were confronted by some whites people looking for runaway slaves. …And what does God do?
White Christians who evangelized to Black slaves had different motives – some greedy and sinful, and others sincere. Despite law after law, many Black folk found and held onto Jesus.
In the English colonies before the laws on slavery were clarified, being baptized a Christian was a consideration for whether or not you would be free.
“why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye but do not notice the log in your own eye?”
Eighth Sunday after Epiphany C
“we will not all die, but we will all be changed”
Eighth Sunday after Epiphany
“blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled”
Sixth Sunday after Epiphany C
February 16, 2025
“how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?”
Sixth Sunday after Epiphany C
February 16, 2025
“they are like trees planted by streams of water”
Sixth Sunday after Epiphany C
February 16, 2025
“they shall be like a tree planted by water”
Sixth Sunday after Epiphany C
February 16, 2025
“are you the one who is to come, or are we to expect someone else?”
NL326
February 16, 2025
“the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him”
A Women’s Lectionary – Sixth Sunday after Epiphany
February 16, 2025
“be doers of the word and not merely hearers”
A Women’s Lectionary – Sixth Sunday after Epiphany
February 16, 2025
“I will praise the Lord as long as I live”
Sixth Sunday after Epiphany – A Women’s Lectionary
February 16, 2025
“the jar of meal will not be emptied and the jug of oil will not fail”
Sixth Sunday after Epiphany – A Women’s Lectionary
February 16, 2025
“as he was walking along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collection station”
Eighth Sunday after Epiphany B
“you yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by all”
Eighth Sunday after Epiphany B
“from now on you will be catching people”
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany C
February 9, 2025
“Christ died for our sins in accordance with scriptures”
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany C
February 9, 2025
“you increased my strength of soul”
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany C
February 9, 2025
“one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal”
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany C
February 9, 2025
“I am not worthy to have you come under my roof”
NL325
February 9, 2025
“you have kept the good wine until now”
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany – A Women’s Lectionary
February 9, 2025
“who plants a vineyard and does not eat any of its fruit?”
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany – A Women’s Lectionary
February 9, 2025
“your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia”
A Women’s Lectionary – Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
February 9, 2025
“myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices”
A Women’s Lectionary – Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
February 9, 2025
Even though he was persecuted for his Anabaptist faith, Dirk Willems still saved the guard who was chasing him.
“they got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill”
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany C
February 2, 2025
“faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love”
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany C
February 2, 2025
“you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth”
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany C
February 2, 2025
“I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy”
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany C
February 2, 2025
“you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox”
NL324
February 2, 2025
“why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye but do not notice the log in your own eye?
NL324
February 2, 2025
“the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove”
A Women’s Lectionary – Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
February 2, 2025
“I, Paul am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you gentiles”
A Women’s Lectionary – Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
February 2, 2025
“the Lord looks down from heaven”
A Women’s Lectionary – Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
February 2, 2025
“send lambs to the ruler of the land”
A Women’s Lectionary – Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
February 2, 2025
“free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death”
Presentation of the Lord ABC
February 2, 2025
“lift up your heads, O gates!”
Presentation of the Lord ABC
February 2, 2025
“my soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the Lord”
Presentation of the Lord ABC
February 2, 2025
“he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver”
Presentation of the Lord ABC
February 2, 2025
“everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God”
A Women’s Lectionary – Presentation of the Lord
February 2, 2025
“walk about Zion, go all around it”
A Women’s Lectionary – Presentation of the Lord
February 2, 2025
“if a woman conceives and bears a male child”
A Women’s Lectionary – Presentation of the Lord
February 2, 2025
The hatred, the violence, the chaos of Bloody Sunday… Still they marched from Selma to Montgomery. Rev. Dr. King spoke words of life to a weary people.
A church legend about seven sleepers who sleep for generations and awake undecayed, unchanged – a revelation about bodily resurrection!
“he began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone”
Third Sunday after Epiphany C
January 26, 2025
“The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you'”
Third Sunday after Epiphany C
January 26, 2025
“the heavens are telling the glory of God”
Third Sunday after Epiphany C
January 26, 2025
“do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength”
Third Sunday after Epiphany C
January 26, 2025
“my eyes have seen your salvation”
Presentation of the Lord ABC
February 2, 2025
“satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love”
NL323
January 26, 2025
“he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up”
A Women’s Lectionary – Third Sunday after Epiphany
January 26, 2025
“some will renounce the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons”
A Women’s Lectionary – Third Sunday after Epiphany
January 26, 2025
“hide me in the shadow of your wings”
A Women’s Lectionary – Third Sunday after Epiphany
January 26, 2025
“he will renew you in his love”
Third Sunday of Advent – A Women’s Lectionary
January 26, 2025
“which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘stand up and take your mat and walk?'”
Seventh Sunday after Epiphany B
“in him every one of God’s promises is a ‘Yes'”
Seventh Sunday after Epiphany B
“I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert”
Seventh Sunday after Epiphany B
“if you are willing, you can make me clean”
Sixth Sunday after Epiphany B
“in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize”
Sixth Sunday after Epiphany B
“not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven”
Proper 4A
“you have kept the good wine until now”
Second Sunday after Epiphany C
January 19, 2024
“there are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit”
Second Sunday after Epiphany C
January 19, 2025
“your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens”
Second Sunday after Epiphany C
January 19, 2025
“they shall be called, ‘The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord'”
Second Sunday after Epiphany C
January 19, 2025
“they…led him to the brow of the hill…so that they might hurl him off the cliff”
NL322
January 19, 2025
“I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”
A Women’s Lectionary – Second Sunday after Epiphany
January 19, 2025
“as dying, and see – we are alive”
A Women’s Lectionary – Second Sunday after Epiphany
January 19, 2025
“in my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help”
A Women’s Lectionary – Second Sunday after Epiphany
January 19, 2025
“they shall be called, ‘The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord'”
A Women’s Lectionary – Second Sunday after Epiphany
January 19, 2025
“the soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David and Jonathan loved him as his own soul”
“the Lord, who saved me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, will save me from the hand of this Philistine”
“There will be no do-overs. Whatever you do today will become part of human history forever.”
“all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God”
Pentecost C
“having said this, he breathed his last”
Passion/Palm Sunday: Liturgy of the Passion C
“while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed”
Second Sunday in Lent C
“the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith”
Ninth Sunday after Epiphany A
“you shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul”
Ninth Sunday after Epiphany A
“it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy”
Eighth Sunday after Epiphany A
“on a day of salvation I have helped you”
Eighth Sunday after Epiphany 8
Even 1,500 years ago, John Chrysostom had a lot of questions about the star…
If the Magi were Zoroastrian, how might their faith have influenced their understanding of what was happening?
Desmond Tutu’s life was a winding path of obstacles, opportunities, blessings, determination, and surprises.
“when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened”
Baptism of the Lord C
January 12, 2025