Mark 1:29-39
5th Sunday after Epiphany - Year B
February 04, 2018
The Rev. David Hodges
(
TEC)
Providing healing and hope to children and families. This is something that I think and speak a lot about in the work I do through the ministry of Saint Francis Community Services. Healing and hope are the cornerstones of the mission of Saint Francis and one of the ways we offer healing and hope is through work that takes place in our psychiatric residential treatment facility. This facility focuses on the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of children who have experienced severe trauma. Children who are admitted to the facility bring with them everything that is adversely impacting their lives. The demons that some of them have known, and continue to know, are very real.
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Luke 13:10-17
14th Sunday after Pentecost - Year A
August 21, 2016
The Rev. Dr. Ruth Hamilton
(
ELCA)
When I was growing up, Sundays meant church, family, and food. My extended family would gather at our congregation for worship, armed with giant Tootsie Rolls to keep us kids quiet during the sermon. Afterwards, we would head over to my grandmother's house for a quick snack of cream-filled coffee cake. Later we all drove over to the cemetery, where we would tidy up the graves of our relatives: planting, watering, weeding, and sweeping dirt off the headstones. Tired and hungry, we would return to my grandmother's house, where roast pork or roast beef waited--after table grace, of course. Finally, after games of hide-and-seek for us kids and lots of conversation, everyone would go home for bedtime prayers and sleep.
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June 19, 2016
The Rev. Dennis Patterson, Jr.
(TEC)
The Rev. Dennis Patterson encourages us to be careful how we treat people because we never know what they are going through. All people, regardless of their race, class, or situation, deserve to be treated as children of God and nothing less. Jesus demonstrates this advice as he deals with the demoniac in Luke 8.
April 06, 2014
The Rev. Duane Steele
(ELCA)
In his sermon for the final Sunday in Lent, the Rev. Duane Steele emphasizes events leading up to the miracle of the raising of Lazarus to encourage us to trust God when we wait in grief and pain for the hope of the resurrection that is to come.
August 05, 2012
The Rev. Dr. Guy Sayles
(CBF)
The Rev. Dr. Guy Sayles suggests that Paul's teaching in Ephesians 4:1-16 can lead us into experiencing our churches as a safe place where a Spirit-fueled give and take in life can occur, where we can equip and encourage one another to stretch and grow in our faith, repair our brokenness, and restore our lives.
The Rev. John Gunn
(other)
"What an outlook; what a triumph of prayer. A man crippled and poor found strength to do his job by means of prayer," writes The Rev. John Gunn in this episode of Be Still and Know which examines the power of prayer.
Mark Sargent
(UMC)
Day1 Host Peter Wallace sits down for the second installment of his conversation with the Rev. Mark Sargent as they discuss an issue close to Mark's heart: Religious Wounding. Mark's understanding of human psychology, and work as a pastor, has led him to believe that a form of spiritual and emotional trauma is prevalent in today's world and is partially to blame for the lack of interest in Christian institutions, and in some cases ideals, today.
The Rev. Dr. Debra Samuelson
(ELCA)
Hosts Daniel Pawlus and Lydia Talbot in conversation with Debra Samuelson, who says the power of the cross is that Jesus meets us where we are and walks with us, but not only that β God also meets us in Christ in the cross with a promise of new life, and that promise comes in surprising ways.