Year B Ezekiel 17:22-24 Psalm 92:1-4,11-14 2 Corinthians 5:6-10,14-17 Mark 4:26-34 May the words of my mouth, O God, speak your truth… After the Battle at Carchemish… which sits on the upper Euphrates river… in 605 BCE… King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jerusalem… and Israel’s King Jehoiakim was forced to pay tribute… for three...
Year B 1 Samuel 8:4-11,16-20 Psalm 138 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 Mark 3:20-35 Every time I update my computer software… there’s an End User Agreement I must agree to before the software will download… or install… or work… not only for programs like PS Elements… or my Bible software… or our beloved Zoom… but even...
Year B Isaiah 6:1-8 Canticle 13 Romans 8:12-17 John 3:1-17 The image on our bulletin cover… doesn’t represent any event in biblical history… or story in scripture… it’s doesn’t refer to the Garden of Eden… or allude to Noah’s Ark… it’s not a picture of Wise Men… there are no angels… no jugs of...
Year B Acts 2:1-21 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 Romans 8:22-27 John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Genesis 11:1 says… Now the whole earth had one language and the same words… but when those people… decided to build that tower… whose top was in the heavens… because they were getting a little too big for their britches… and wanted...
Year B Acts 1:1-11 Psalm 47 Ephesians 1:15-23 Luke 24:44-53 Jesus said… I am sending you… what my Father promised… you will be clothed with power from on high when the Holy Spirit comes upon you… and you will be my witnesses not only in Jerusalem… but to the ends of the earth… ...