January 29, 2017 – Fourth Sunday After Epiphany Luke 6:1-16 Healing on the Sabbath Sabbath Stories This chapter begins talking about Sabbath and how Jesus interacts with Sabbath. Jesus allows the disciples to work to feed themselves on the Sabbath. They pick grain, and rub it between their fingers and consume it. And Jesus is questioned as to why he allows the disciples to violate…
January 22, 2017 – Third Sunday After Epiphany Luke 5:1-11 – Great Catch of Fish Just Doing What We Do This is a famous passage. In it Christ calls his first disciples. They are out in the boat, and apparently have been all night. Jesus sees them washing/mending their nets. Christ gets in a boat they push off, and from the boat Christ teaches…
January 15, 2017 – Second Sunday After Epiphany Luke 4:14-30 Sermon at Nazareth Too Familiar? How well do we know each other? How well do we know Jesus? How well do we know Scripture? This passage seems to imply that we can know someone so well that we can know what they aren’t as well as what they are. The crowd knows Jesus.…
This is our Advent and Christmas Cantata. This year’s service was centered around the canticles, the songs in Scripture that prepare the way for Christ’s birth.