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Presentation by Anna Rickrode
May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts and minds be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, our strength and our salvation. Amen. The last time I presented, I didn’t have a perpetual-motion thirteen-month-old, so this is going to be short, sweet, and to the point. I think the invitation to…
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Readings – Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25; Psalm 78:1-7; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Matthew 25:1-13 I can remember as a child sitting next to my father in our 1951 gray Plymouth two-door and cruising the neighborhood gas stations looking for $0.23 gas. Some of you can probably remember even buying lower-priced gas. I don’t think those prices for…
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Readings – Acts 2: 42-47; Psalm 23; I Peter 2: 19-25; John 10: 1-10 Before we approach the text from the Gospel according to St. John, I would like to place it in context. Today’s passage immediately follows the healing of the man born blind. Jesus made mud with his saliva and placed it on…
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Readings: Deuteronomy 18: 15-20, Psalm 111, 1 Corinthians 8: 1-13, Mark 1: 21-28 As many of you know, I am a member of the Lewisburg Sunrise Rotary Club. We meet Wednesdays at 7 a.m. This past week Steve Beattie of the Joint Rail Authority of SEDA-COG was the presenter. It was all about the hundred…
The Day of Pentecost
Readings – Acts 2: 1-21; Psalm 104: 25-35, 37; Romans 8: 22-27; John 15: 26-27, 16: 4b-15 Alleluia! Christ is risen! I used to think that Easter was enough. I used to think that the empty tomb was enough all by itself. But I’ve changed my mind. Easter needs Pentecost. Without Pentecost, Easter offers us…
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Readings- Genesis 24: 34-38, 42-49, 58-67; Psalm 45: 11-18; Romans 7: 15-25a; Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 Tucked in among all the stories of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, we find this wonderful story in Genesis of an unnamed servant and a young woman named Rebekah. Let’s stay with this rather than rushing toward the…
