Epiphany 4A – 2023 – Kentwood and Wyoming – The Rev. Canon Valerie Ambrose The news this past week has been distressing. We heard or more shootings, more mass shootings, violence by those committed to serve and protect, political rancor, rising inflation with food prices so high many families are struggling to feed themselves;...
Year A Isaiah 9:1-4 Psalm 27:1, 5-13 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 Matthew 4:12-23 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your truth… Something happened… something on the outside… but also something on the inside… Jesus heard that his cousin John had been arrested… and in that moment… something in him shifted… he may have become more aware...
Year A Isaiah 49:1-7 Psalm 40:1-12 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 John 1:29-42 Behold the Lamb of God… who takes away the sin of the world… We find these words… or some variation of them… not just in today’s Gospel… but in the Gloria that we just sang… in The Great Litany… in some versions of the Angus Dei we...
Year A Isaiah 42:1-9 Psalm 29 Acts 10:34-43 Matthew 3:13-17 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… A sacrament is an outward and visible sign… of an inward spiritual grace… it’s the thing you see… which represents the bigger thing that’s going on under the surface… the Episcopal church holds to seven sacraments… confirmation… ...
Rev. Alexander Steward January 1, 2023 Luke 2:15-21 Grace and peace to you from our Triune God. Here we find ourselves on the doorstep of a new year. The possibilities lay out in front of us, ours to grasp and run with. There are challenges we have yet to face and even some we...