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....
THE SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT DECEMBER 6, 2020 MARK 1: 1-8 The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God, as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way” “a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare...
CHRIST THE KING SUNDAY MATTHEW 15: 31-46 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats....
TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST JOHN 15: 12-17 “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not...
THE TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST NOVEMBER 8, 2020 MATTHEW 25: 1-13 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like young women who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil...
ALL SAINTS DAY SERMON I have to be honest with you, CLC friends… as I begin to type this sermon, I’m not feeling it. This semester at seminary is simply killing me with work. There’s been the stress and anxiety associated with my ELCA Endorsement interview, and the essay writing, paperwork, everything that accompanies that....
OCTOBER 25, 2020 MATTHEW 22: 34-46 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul...
THE TWENTIETH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST OCTOBER 18, 2020 MATTHEW 22:15-22 15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said. 16 So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and...
