Tag Archives: Year B

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When Love Comes to Town

Garden of Grace United Church of Christ, Columbia, S.C. Readings for the Third Sunday after Epiphany: Jonah 3:1-10, Mark 1:14-20 I was a sailor, I was lost at sea I was under the waves, before love rescued me I was a fighter, I could turn

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This Little Light of Mine

Garden of Grace United Church of Christ, Columbia, S.C. Readings: 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28, John 1:6-28 This morning’s song comes from Grammy-award winning blues singer and guitarist Keb’ Mo’. Born Kevin Moore he was born and raised in Compton, California. This song, “Let Your Light Shine,”

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Shaking the Dust Off for God

Reading for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost: And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him. And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying,

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Engaging Grace Compassionately

Diaconate Candidacy Sermon Given at Gentle Shepherd Metropolitan Community Church, Phoenix, Ariz. Readings: Loving our Neighbor Includes: Engaging people authentically, as Jesus did, treating all as creations made in God’s very image, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental ability, nationality, or

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Becoming ‘Hafta’ Farmers

Garden of Grace United Church of Christ, Columbia, S.C. Readings for the Second Sunday of Easter: 32 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. 33 With

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God, in Your Grace, Transform the World

Reading for the Seventh Sunday after Epiphany:  When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was so longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was

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Prophet-Making Opportunities

Garden of Grace United Church of Christ, Columbia, S.C. Readings for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany: Deuteronomy 18:15-20, Mark 1:21-28 How many email accounts do you have? More than one? More than two? More than three? More than you can reasonably count? Have any of

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It’s Just Not Fair!

Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings for the First Sunday of Advent: O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence — as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to

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The Journey of Acceptance

Northaven United Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas Reading for the Second Sunday in Lent and Trinity Sunday: John 3:1-17 In case you haven’t figured it out, there is something advertisers know about us. There is something that the sellers of consumer goods know about us. There

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Be Human First

Reading for the Ninth Sunday after Epiphany: And it came to pass, that Jesus went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and the disciples began to pluck the ears of corn as they went. And the Pharisees said to Jesus, Why do your