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Sermon for Easter Sunday 2024

First Reading: Isaiah 25:6-9 6On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined. 7And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil … [Read more…]

Sermon for Palm/Passion Sunday

Processional: John 12:12-19 12The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” 14And … [Read more…]

Sermon for 4th Sunday in Lent

First Reading: Numbers 21:4-9 4From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. 5And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? … [Read more…]

Sermon for 3rd Sunday in Lent

First Reading: Exodus 20:1-17 1God spoke all these words, saying, 2“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.3You shall have no other gods before me. 4You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in … [Read more…]

Sermon for 2nd Sunday in Lent

First Reading: Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16  1When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, 2that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.” 3Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to … [Read more…]

Sermon for 1st Sunday in Lent

First Reading: Genesis 22:1-18  1After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 2He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which … [Read more…]

Sermon for Transfiguration Sunday

First Reading: Exodus 34:29-35  29When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. 30Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, … [Read more…]

Sermon for the 5th Sunday after the Epiphany

First Reading: Isaiah 40:21-31  21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a … [Read more…]

Sermon for 4th Sunday after the Epiphany

First Reading: Deuteronomy 18:15-20  15“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers — it is to him you shall listen — 16just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not … [Read more…]

Sermon for 3rd Sunday after the Epiphany

First Reading: Jonah 3:1-5, 10  The word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” 3So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great … [Read more…]