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 […]
Baptism of Our Lord Sunday, January 9, 2022
Celtic Wisdom Sacred Journey As we begin the Season of Epiphany in the church, we conclude our walk with the book “Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul” by John Philip Newell. It is appropriate that we conclude with Kenneth White’s invitation into a journey of opening to new ways of seeing and being every day. It is […]
Second Christmas Sunday, January 2, 2022
Celtic Wisdom Sacred Compassion This Christmas Season, awaken to the knowledge that the earth and all its creatures are sacred. This sacredness has the power to fill us with the Hope, Love, Joy, and Peace of Christ who is “God with us.” George MacLeod awakens us to the compassion of God that is deep in […]