October 14, 2018 – Eric Sundberg
Date: October 14, 2018
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: All Saints Episcopal Church
129 North Market Street
Selinsgrove, PA 17870
Date: October 14, 2018
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: All Saints Episcopal Church
129 North Market Street
Selinsgrove, PA 17870
From The Man of La Mancha: …to try when your arms are too weary to reach the unreachable star. This is my quest, to follow that star… And I’ll always dream the impossible dream… We people of faith follow the Epiphany Star, the Morning Star, “the unreachable star.” We people of faith believe in “the…
All too often when we hear the 23rd Psalm, we envision ourselves as the sleep in the arms of the loving shepherd Jesus. At times of stress & crisis, to be in the arms of Jesus is what we need. However, on most days I think we are invited to be shepherds. In fact, Jesus…
I recently had the opportunity to learn from John Kruk, a former Philadelphia Phillies baseball player and now TV analysts, that really good hitters focus on balls pitched into their “happy zone”, which is only a portion of the strike zone. Not only do good hitters allow balls outside the strike zone to fly by,…
May the words of my mouth and meditations of all our hearts and minds be acceptable to you, O Lord, our rock, and our Redeemer. Hosea’s story is wild: as a prophetic message to the nation of Israel, God instructs Hosea to marry a prostitute and bear children with her, knowing full well that this…
Readings – Micah 6:1-8; Psalm 15; I Corinthians 1:18-31; Matthew 5:1-12 This morning’s reading from the Gospel according to St. Matthew is where we begin today. It is immediately recognized as the Sermon on the Mount. St. Luke has a similar passage called the Sermon on the Plain. Scholars tell us that both texts are…
In a competition to see what “god” could end the seven-year drought in ancient Israel, Elijah, the prophet of the God of Israel defeated the prophets of Baal, the God of Queen Jezebel. With a cloud rising out of the Mediterranean sea, the drought ended. Queen Jezebel was furious and threatened the life of Elijah…