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The Second Sunday in Lent March 16, 2025 Philippians 3:17-4:1 God’s Surprising Strategies— No Detours Allowed!   17Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. 18For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is…

The First Sunday in Lent March 9, 2025 Luke 4:1-13 God’s Surprising Strategies— One Stands; Everyone Else Sits!     1Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, 2where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. 3The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become…

Transfiguration Sunday March 2, 2025 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 Epiphany Moments— Glory is Hidden In Order to Be Revealed!   7Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was, 8will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? 9If the ministry that condemns men is glorious, how much more glorious is the…

The Seventh Sunday after Epiphany February 23, 2025 Luke 6:27-38 Epiphany Moments— Love Your Enemies; Overcoming Evil with Good!   27“But tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. 30Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes…

The Sixth Sunday after Epiphany February 16, 2025 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 Epiphany Moments— Blessings are Cursed; Curses are Blessed!   To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I…

The Fifth Sunday after Epiphany February 9, 2025 Luke 5:1-11 Epiphany Moments— The Least Qualified are the First Sent!   1One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the people crowding around him and listening to the word of God, 2he saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. 3He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little…

The Fourth Sunday after Epiphany February 2, 2025 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 Epiphany Moments— Popularity is Not Proof of Success!   14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in…

The Third Sunday after Epiphany January 26, 2025 Luke 4:16-30 Epiphany Moments— Rejection is Not Proof of Failure!   16He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. 17The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:   18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has…

Epiphany Sunday January 5, 2025 Matthew 2:1-12 The Gift of God— The Gift of God is for All People!   1After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.” 3When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4When…

The First Sunday after Christmas December 29, 2024 Luke 2:1-20 The Gift of God— God Gives Heaven’s Best Gift in Earth’s Unlikeliest Place!   1In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3And everyone went to his own town to register. 4So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem…