Today we welcome Steve Slepecki to the pulpit with music by Ed Kapsha. Photo by Ahna Ziegler on Unsplash In the course of my very young ministry career thus far, I’ve already had to preach some pretty unusual sermons. My very first sermon ever, was preached while wearing street clothes, before I had even decided...
THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY FEBRUARY 7, 2021 LUKE 12: 49-53 “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth?...
THE FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY JANUARY 31, 2021 MARK 1: 21-28 They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. Just then...
THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY JANUARY 24, 2021 MARK 1: 14-20 After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!” As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee,...
THE SECOND SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY JANUARY 17, 2020 JOHN 1: 43-51 The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.” Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the...
THE BAPTISM OF OUR LORD MARK 1: 4-11 And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. John wore...
Ring in the New Year and close out the holiday season with beautiful music by Ed Kapsha. God bless you in 2021!
CHRISTMAS EVE DECEMBER 24, 2020 LUKE 2: 1-14 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went up...
THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT LUKE 1: 26-38 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings,...
THE THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT DECEMBER 13, 2020 JOHN 1: 6-8, 19-28 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light....
