Year B Isaiah 25:6-9 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Mark 16:1-8 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… There’s a 2013 movie called Elysium… which takes place 130 years in the future… when humanity is sharply divided between two classes of people… those who live a hardscrabble existence in Earth’s ruined cities… where...
Year B Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Psalm 22 Hebrews 10:16-25 John 19:1-37 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Today is about the loss of hope… after years of preaching… teaching… healings… miracles… and revelation… after promises of the Kingdom… Peter’s denial shows that he fears guilt by association… No… not me… I don’t know that...
Year B Exodus 12:1-4, 11-14 Psalm 116:1, 10-17 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 John 13:1-17, 31b-35 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… This evening’s reading about the Last Supper takes a different approach than the synoptic Gospels do… while the synoptics focus on Jesus’ establishment of the Eucharist… tonight’s passage focuses on Jesus washing the...
In place of a sermon on Palm Sunday, we had a dramatic reading of the Passion story based on the Gospel of Mark. You can find the video of the service on our Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/hcealc/videos/744578871150609
Year B Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 119:9-16 Hebrews 5:5-10 John 12:20-33 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Jeremiah lived during one of the most critical periods in the history of the Jewish people… the destruction of Jerusalem and Solomon’s Temple… followed immediately by the Babylonian exile… he witnessed the last years of the kingdom...