1 Samuel 3:1-10, (13-20)
Epiphany 2B
[…] And here there is an echo, “”It is the LORD; let him do what seems good to him.” Worship Idea In recent years, many churches have celebrated Epiphany and the start of a new calendar year with the practice of receiving “star words.” You can read more about the practice here. I will say […]
Genesis 1:1-5
Epiphany 1B
[…] In such a context, the text claims that even the chaos of our historical life can be claimed by God for his grand purposes.” The season of Epiphany is marked by the growing light of longer days (in the Northern Hemisphere) and the Light of Christ, particularly the gospel narratives of his life and […]
Psalm 29
Epiphany 1B
[…] any of this to baptism in any sense. That may also be why few pastors would choose to preach on this text for the first Sunday after Epiphany (though if you are reading this, maybe you are going to do this after all!). Perhaps, however, pondering this in connection to Jesus’s baptism and perhaps […]
Matthew 17:1-9
Last Epiphany A
Epiphany (Church Seasons); Jesus Christ’s divinity (Trinity and Incarnation); Jesus Christ’s humanity (Trinity and Incarnation); Transfiguration (Trinity and Incarnation); Lectionary (Preaching and Worship Practice); Sermon (Preaching and Worship Practice)
Matthew 5:38-48
Epiphany 7A
Epiphany (Church Seasons); Forgiveness (Christian life); Love (Christian life); Love (Virtues); Lectionary (Preaching and Worship Practice); Sermon (Preaching and Worship Practice)`
Matthew 5:13-20
Epiphany 5A
Epiphany (Church Seasons); Sermon on the Mount (Theme Clusters); Obedience (Christian life); Grace (Theological Topics); Kingdom of God (Theological Topics); Law (Theological Topics); Cultures (Church and Society); Integration (Church and Society); Lectionary (Preaching and Worship Practice); Sermon (Preaching and Worship Practice)
John 1:29-42
Epiphany 2A
Epiphany (Church Seasons); Jesus Christ (Trinity and Incarnation); Image of God (Theological Topics); Lectionary (Preaching and Worship Practice); Sermon (Preaching and Worship Practice)
Psalm 99
Transfiguration Sunday C
On this Transfiguration Sunday, Psalm 99 provides us with a tantalizingly different way to preach on that brilliant Epiphany of Christ’s glory on the mountain. In our Transfiguration Day sermon we could do what the disciples wanted to do in Luke 9; we could build shelters/booths/museums to preserve the moment. We could keep retelling […]
2 Corinthians 4:3-6
Epiphany 6B
At one level, Christians recognize the seasonal timeliness of 2 Corinthians 4:3-6. After all, this Sunday marks the transition from Epiphany, with its emphasis on light, to Lent, with its emphasis on darkness. It’s also Transfiguration Sunday, the day on which much of the Church focuses on “the glory of God in face of […]
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