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Yr B ~ Epiphany 4 ~ Mark 1:21-28 Mark’s gospel tells the Jesus story at a breathless pace, and he leaves us befuddled and off-balance with the wild stuff in this first chapter. The heavens get ripped open and God’s…
Yr B ~ Epiphany 3 ~ Mark 1:14-20 Have you ever heard a one-sentence sermon? Today you will. Oh, not mine, of course. Mine will have many, many sentences. It’s Jesus who has the one-sentence sermon, and it was his…
Yr B ~ Epiphany 2 ~ Ephesians 3:1-12 I’m going to break a cardinal rule of preaching today. I’m going to make it all about me. Well, it’ll start being about me, and then it’ll be all about you. The…
Yr B ~ Epiphany 1 ~ Mark 1:4-11 In stark contrast to the season we’ve just emerged from – Christmas – there is no nativity or birth story for Jesus in the Gospel of Mark. Well, perhaps there is, as…
Yr B ~ Christmas 2 ~ John 1:1-14 The world has moved on, and it probably feels a bit odd to us, but we’re still in the season of Christmas in church. There are 12 days of Christmas, after all,…
Yr B ~ Advent 4 ~ Matthew 1:18-25 We’ve all seen dozens of movies or Christmas pageants in which the story of Jesus’ conception is portrayed, and just about all of them show Mary, filled with angst, coming to Joseph…
Yr B ~ A3 ~ Luke 1:46-55 [Luke 1:46-55 – a paraphrase]And Mary sang, “My soul resonates and reverberates with God’s amazing love and my spirit rejoices in God, for God’s Spirit fills those who are humble enough to receive…
Yr B ~ A2 ~ Mark 1:1-8 You all know the song called “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, right? If you totalled up all the gifts of all the days, including the repetitions, you’d have 364 gifts! Anyone care to…
Yr A ~ A1 ~ Isaiah 2:1-5 We first encountered the concept of an Advent Conspiracy back in 2010 when we did our first well-digging project. I thought it was time we revisited that original concept and see what it…
Yr A ~ Reign of Christ ~ Matthew 25:31-46 Today’s reading draws Matthew chapter 25 to an end. It’s a chapter filled with complex parables about the Kingdom of Heaven, or Kingdom of God. Saying that, I don’t think this…