by Shelly | Feb 23, 2023 | Sermons
Seeing Jesus’ glory strengthens his followers In today’s gospel the Samaritan woman asks Jesus for water, an image of our thirst for God. Jesus offers living water, a sign of God’s grace flowing from the waters of baptism. The early church used this gospel and...
by Shelly | Feb 23, 2023 | Sermons
New birth as children of God. During Lent we journey with all those around the world who will be baptized at the Easter Vigil. In today’s gospel Jesus tells Nicodemus that he must be born of water and Spirit. At the font we are a given a new birth as children of God....
by Shelly | Feb 23, 2023 | Sermons
Standing up to forces of evil Today’s gospel tells of Jesus’ temptation in the desert. His forty-day fast becomes the basis of our Lenten pilgrimage. In the early church Lent was a time of intense preparation for those to be baptized at the Easter Vigil. This...
by Shelly | Feb 9, 2023 | Sermons
Seeing Jesus’ glory strengthens his followers Today’s festival is a bridge between the Advent-Christmas-Epiphany cycle that comes to a close today and the Lent-Easter cycle that begins in several days. On a high mountain Jesus is revealed as God’s beloved Son,...
by Shelly | Feb 9, 2023 | Sermons
Honoring God and neighbor In today’s reading from Deuteronomy we are called to choose life by loving and obeying God. Much of today’s gospel reading echoes portions of the Ten Commandments. Jesus’ instructions to the crowd reveal a pattern of behavior that honors both...
by Shelly | Feb 2, 2023 | Sermons
As salt & light, we can preserve and iluminate Light shines in the darkness for the upright, the psalmist sings. Isaiah declares that when we loose the bonds of injustice and share our bread with the hungry, the light breaks forth like the dawn. In another passage...
