May 19, 2021 What is Pentecost and Why do we celebrate it? After the Easter Season ends we celebrate the festival of Pentecost. On Pentecost we commemorate the apostles and other followers of Jesus receiving the Holy Spirit. The traditional Scripture text we read on Pentecost is Act 2:1-21. This text tells the story of…

March 31, 2021 This image is one I took in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the structure in the middle is said to be built over where they believe Jesus’s tomb was. As I’ve been preparing for Holy Week I’ve seen several things on social media and articles that say things like “don’t skip…

March 24, 2021 Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday? Why do we celebrate one or the other? Or Both? Palm Sunday traditionally is celebrated the Sunday before Easter when we remember Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem when Jesus entered into Jerusalem on a borrowed donkey and the people chanted “Hosanna!” and laid palm branches at his…

March 17. 2021 Jeremiah 31:31-34 31The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land…

March 10, 2021 Numbers 21:4-9 4From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. 5The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For…

March 3, 2021 Exodus 20:1-17 The Ten Commandments 20 Then God spoke all these words: 2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3 you shall have no other gods before[a] me. 4 You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is…

February 24, 2021 Genesis 17:1-7, 15- 17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty;[a] walk before me, and be blameless. 2 And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous.” 3 Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, 4 “As for me,…

February 17, 2020 Lent 1 Ash Wednesday Genesis 9:8-17 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you,…

February 10, 2021 What’s the transfiguration and why does it matter? Mark 9:2-9 2 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 3 and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one[a] on earth could bleach them. 4 And there…

February 3, 2021 Isaiah 40:21-31New Revised Standard Version 21 Have you not known? Have you not heard?    Has it not been told you from the beginning?    Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,    and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,    and…