July 27, 2014 Pentecost 7A Romans 8:26-39

Romans 8:35, 37-39 “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? …  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  For I am convinced [...]

July 20, 2014 Pentecost 6A Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43     “Give Me A Listening Heart”   Give me a listening heart A quiet place to pray Open up my soul that I might hear your voice this day   Spirit of wisdom Pour yourself on me That I might know your will that I [...]

July 13, 2014 Pentecost 5A Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

“And Jesus told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have [...]

July 6, 2014 Pentecost 4A Romans 7:15-25; Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

This week the lectionary takes us to the very heart of the matter, St. Paul exclaims, “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. …,” I don’t know [...]

June 29, 2014 Pentecost 3A Matthew 10:40-42

“Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. … and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their [...]

June 22, 2014 Pentecost 2A Matthew 10:37-39

“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Those who find [...]

June 15, 2014 Holy Trinity Sunday A Genesis 1:1-2:4a

Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the [...]

June 8, 2014 Pentecost A John 20:19-23; Acts 2:1-21  

 In this week’s gospel text today we find the disciples hiding away for fear of what the religious and political authorities might do to them. They have heard the news of the resurrection but it has not yet set them free from fear, they [...]

June 1, 2014 Ascension Sunday Acts 1:1-11; Ephesians 1:15-23  

This Thursday we celebrate Ascension Day, the day that Christ ascends to heaven to take his place at the right hand of God. It is the day that marks the end of the forty days of post resurrection appearances, a time described in the [...]

May 25, 2014 Easter 6A John 14:15-21  

The season of Easter is almost over and perhaps you find yourself asking, “Now what do I do?”  We have been to the garden and we have looked deeply and intently into the now vacant tomb, we have heard mysterious stories about Jesus appearing and disappearing, [...]