Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings for the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost: Hebrews 7:23-28, Mark 10:46-52 Forgive the stereotype, dear friends, but let me begin today with a story about a little old lady. Age had robbed her of much of her sight, so
Read the rest of the series Gentle Shepherd Metropolitan Community Church, Phoenix, Ariz. Written and Delivered by John Williams, Senior Deacon. Once, long ago in a land far away, there lived four little characters who ran through a maze looking for cheese to nourish them
University Baptist Church, Austin, Texas Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Lent: Numbers 21:4-9, Ephesians 2:1-10, John 3:14-21 It’s late at night, I’m kind of sleepy, and I’m channel surfing to find something interesting to watch on TV. I see this guy lying on a
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, Texas When Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended its seven-year run this past May, I knew I would make it the subject of a service. My first thought was to call it “Requiem for a Slayer.” But I quickly realized
Read the rest of the series Gentle Shepherd Metropolitan Community Church, Phoenix, Ariz. They all laughed as they realized that although they had gone off in different directions ‚ from working at home to managing companies‚ they were experiencing similar feelings. Everyone was trying to
We arrived in Rome, and Paul was allowed to live in a house by himself with a soldier to guard him. Three days after we got there, Paul called together some of the Jewish leaders and said: My friends, I have never done anything to
Reading for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost: And they took to him little children, so that he might put his hands on them: and the disciples said sharp words to them. And when Jesus saw it, he was angry, and said to them, Let the
Read the rest of the series Gentle Shepherd Metropolitan Community Church, Phoenix, Ariz. Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again
So be ready yourselves, for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect. (Matthew 24:44, Moffatt Bible) This text is usually applied to eschatology, the Lord’s return, to the parousia. But there is an element of this text than can
But the angel said to him, “Fear not, Zechariah, your prayer has been heard; your wife Elizabeth will bear a son to you, and you must call his name John. It will be joy and gladness for you, and many will rejoice over his birth: