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Lectionary Year C (Page 8)
We talk about our expectations and God’s expectations and how those things come together in our readings, especially the reading that we have from the Gospel of John where Jesus turns water into wine. Sermon Scripture: John 2:1–12 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus…
What do you have trouble seeing around? That’s the big question that we talk about today as we look at the story of Jesus’ baptism from the Gospel of Luke and all of the things that needed clarity, and how our lives can benefit from God’s clarity as well as we think about our vocations.…
We finish up the Christmas season and our “Christmas Calling” series talking about Simeon, waiting, and how the promise of the Resurrection changes our waiting. Sermon Scripture: Luke 2:22–40 And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as…
It’s Christmas Eve! But does it really “feel like” Christmas to us? We talk about the desperation and desolation that can happen, and how to identify a good place to say “this is Christmas.” Sermon Scripture: Luke 2:1–20 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This…
We talk about what it means for us to be honored by God in the sacrifice of His Son, and how His honor beats back our shame. Sermon Scripture: Luke 1:39–56 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah…
Pink Candle Sunday, the third Sunday of Advent, also called Gaudete Sunday is a Sunday that is all about joy – so we talk about the joy that we are given by Christ, what gets in the way of our joy, and our Baptisms. Sermon Scripture: Luke 7:18–35 The disciples of John reported all these…