“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

~ Oscar Wilde

“A NEW Teaching!” – Mark 1:21-28 (Year B, the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany)

2024-01-22T11:38:05-05:00January 22nd, 2024|Lectionary Sermon Starters, Uncategorized|

Read the Lectionary Texts Those of us who grew up in the church and have come to the place in life where the stories of our faith have become kind of ho-hum need every once in awhile to ask ourselves, “What was it about Jesus that was so attractive to those who decided to follow him to the death, and so threatening to those who eventually killed him?” Was it his call to love? Was it his willingness to heal? Was it the fact that he could turn water into wine or a few fishes and loaves into a [READ MORE]

“The End of the Beginning” – Christ the King Sunday (Colossians 1:15-20)

2023-11-17T15:24:52-05:00November 20th, 2023|Lectionary Sermon Starters, Uncategorized|

Read the Scripture Text   Today is Christ the King Sunday. It is the last Sunday of the Christian Year that began 12-months ago on the First Sunday in Advent. But while Christ the King Sunday may be the last Sunday of the year, it is by no means an ending. Next week, we will start the Advent cycle all over again! So today is not a permanent ending so much as it is the end of the beginning that started one year ago. Most of us, of course, are more familiar with the phrase “the beginning of the [READ MORE]

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