Mercy. Mercy. Mercy. Jesus preaches it in the gospel. The Spirit guides us into merciful lives with the power of forgiveness to reconcile what is fractured and divided. Such merciful living is the baptismal blessing of having put on Christ. It is the gift of the life-giving Spirit. It is a reflection of God’s glory […]
Epiphany 6th Sunday, February 13, 2022
In Christ God forms a new community where the voices and lives of the vulnerable are heard and centered. As these voices are centered, boundaries for healthy community based on love and care for all are honored and practiced.
Epiphany 5th Sunday, February 6, 2022
The fifth Sunday after Epiphany continues to highlight unlikely instruments and circumstances appointed to reveal God’s glory. “Who will go for us?” God asks. A person of unclean lips, a former persecutor of the church of God, and three fishermen who couldn’t catch a thing. More surprising still, perhaps, is that we are also called.The […]
Epiphany 4th Sunday, January 30, 2022
The glory of God is often revealed when and where it is least expected. Christians in Corinth prided themselves on their spiritual gifts. Paul reminds them that God gives us many gifts through the Holy Spirit, but the purpose behind all of them is love, the kind of love that God showed us in Jesus […]
Epiphany 3rd Sunday, January 23, 2021
During this season of Epiphany, God’s glory is revealed in the church’s commitment to Jesus Christ’s mission to bring good news to the poor, release to captives, justice to society, and relief to those struggling. Let us gather round, listen up, and glimpse the glory of God.
Epiphany 2nd Sunday, January 16, 2022
The Sundays after Epiphany continue to celebrate the revelation of God’s glory to us as it was made known to the magi and to those on Jordan’s banks at Jesus’ baptism—today using wedding imagery. Our God rejoices over God’s people as those being married rejoice over one another. By the power of the Spirit there […]