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All Saints’ Sunday Preview

When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.” -John 11:43-44 On All Saints Sunday we remember loved ones who…

Pentecost 21 Preview

“Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” They were greatly astounded and said to one another, “Then who can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For…

Pentecost 18 Preview

“Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.” -Mark 9:37 We live in a society of “invisible” people – those on the margins; those for whom we would rather not associate. In our Gospel lesson for today Jesus talks about…

Pentecost 7 Preview

“He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two…” Mark 6:7 Jesus does great deeds of power and gives his disciples authority over demons. Yet none of this power is unilateral; it all must be received by faith. Jesus asks his disciples to go out without money or supplies, so that…

Pentecost 17 Preview

Today’s Gospel Lesson in Luke 15:1-10, lifts up Jesus’ concern for those who the world sometimes forgets about. Just so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.’ –Luke 15:10 People who live at the fringes of society are sometimes are easily overlooked. But …