NOTE FROM PASTOR J R FOR SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2016
Last Sunday, I preached a sermon called “A Miracle Just to Keep the Party Going!” The assigned lectionary gospel text was on Jesus’s first miracle, […]
Last Sunday, I preached a sermon called “A Miracle Just to Keep the Party Going!” The assigned lectionary gospel text was on Jesus’s first miracle, […]
This Sunday, the assigned gospel lesson is about Jesus’ first public miracle. It was when He turned the water into wine at a wedding in […]
This Second Sunday of the New Year is celebrated in Christian circles as the “Baptism of Our Lord Sunday.” Covenant will join with Christian churches […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I’m still away on a much needed vacation of rest for this Holiday Season. However, I will be back in the pulpit […]
For many folks, by this Sunday Christmas is over! For them the decorations have started to come down and they are solely focused on the […]
This Sunday is the Fourth Sunday of Advent and the theme is Love. Most of us think of love as a feeling; but love is […]
This Sunday is the Third Sunday of Advent and the theme is Joy. Liturgically this Sunday is called “Gaudete Sunday.” Gaudete is the Latin word […]
The First Sunday in Advent, when the theme was HOPE, began with apocalyptic images that are as non-Christmasy as can be imagined. Now in the […]
This Sunday is the First Sunday in Advent and the theme is Hope. The assigned lectionary scriptures for this Sunday from Jeremiah and Luke offers […]
The lectionary Epistle text assigned for this Sunday is instructing us concerning “worshipping together” in a context that goes beyond what we commonly think of […]