Fifth Sunday in Lent

Readings – I Samuel 15: 34-16: 3; Psalm 20; II Corinthians 5: 6-17; Mark 4: 26-34 The theme for today is that God is always seeking a way forward in mission, though the road is always bumpy, the road is always full of twists and turns and potholes.  In today’s reading we continue the story…

Reading – Acts 5: 27-32; Psalm 118: 14-29; Revelation 1: 4-8; John 20: 19-31 In the late 1960’s and into the 1970’s the Episcopal Church was developing a revised Book of Common Prayer.  It was well passed time to revise the 1928 Book of Common Prayer.  We were also in the midst of the contentious…

Readings: Genesis 29:15-28; Psalm 105:1-11, 45b; Romans 8:26-39; Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 Today in our Old Testament reading we continue the saga of Jacob, the legendary father of Israel.  With his first wife, Leah, whom Laban tricks him into marriage, he has sons – first Ruben, second Simeon, third Levi, and fourth Judah.  Sons five Dan…

Readings – I Kings 8: 1, 6,10-11, 22-30, 41-43; Psalm 84; Ephesians 6: 10-20; John 6: 56-69 Let’s spend some time with the first reading, the long reading, from I Kings.  We know very little about the first temple of Israel in Shiloh.  We know that it is where the boy Samuel served the elderly…

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…

Readings: I Samuel 3: 1-20; Psalm 139: 1-5, 12-17; I Corinthians 6: 12-20; John 1: 43-51 Let’s begin with the stirring words of St. Paul to the church community gathered in Corinth, Greece. Simply put, Christ died on the cross and rose again to light a fire in us, the fire to love God, love neighbor,…