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Sixth Sunday of Easter: May 26, 2019 When our kids were in high school, Chris and I would accompany them to the Montreat Youth...

Fourth Sunday of Easter: May 12, 2019 All stories—especially Biblical stories—are set in a particular time and place. The time of this...

Third Sunday of Easter: May 5, 2019 When I was a graduate student At Binghamton, NY, the administrative assistant for the director of...

Second Sunday of Easter: April 28, 2019 There are two kinds of doors in this world: the kind we lock and the kind we unlock. We lock the...

Fifth Sunday in Lent: April 7, 2019 audio What are your favorite stories about Jesus? Do you like his parables? Those brief, charming,...

Fourth Sunday of Lent, March 31, 2019 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and the...

Third Sunday of Lent, March 24, 2019 audio In today’s gospel lesson, Jesus is confronting an age-old problem that had troubled people for...

First Sunday in Lent, March 10, 2019 Epistle Lesson: Romans 10:8b-13 “The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart” (that is, the...

Transfiguration Sunday, March 3, 2019 Epistle Lesson: 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2 Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great...

Seventh Sunday After Epiphany, February 24, 2019 audio Gospel Lesson: Luke 6:27-38 But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do...

Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, February 10, 2019 Old Testament Lesson: Isaiah 6:1-8 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord...

Old Testament Lesson: Jeremiah 1:4-10 Now the word of the LORD came to me saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before...

Old Testament Lesson: Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 All the people gathered together into the square before the Water Gate. They told the...

Baptism of the Lord, January 13, 2019 – Audio Old Testament Lesson: Isaiah 43:1-7 But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O...

Epiphany of the Lord, January 6, 2019 Epistle Lesson: Ephesians 3:1-12 (The Message) This is why I, Paul, am in jail for Christ, having...

Sunday After Christmas, December 30, 2018 Old Testament Lesson: 1 Samuel 2: 18-20, 26 Samuel was ministering before the LORD, a boy...

Christmas Eve, December 24, 2018 Gospel Lesson: Luke 1:1-20 In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over...

Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 23, 2018 Old Testament Lesson: Micah 5:2-5a But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the...

Isaiah 9:2-6 John 1:1-14 There was a time over twenty years ago, when I could not make sense of Christmas lights. For a couple of days...

Revelation 1:4-8 John 18:33-38 (Walking through the sanctuary handing out hazelnuts.) Today is Sunday, November 25, 2018, Christ the...