Scriptures: Isaiah 40:21-31 • Those who wait on God renew their strength. Mark 1:29-39 • Simon’s mother-in-law and many other healed. As we are taught on airplanes, “You need to put your own oxygen mask on first” before you can help others. With all acts of service, we need to
Continue readingJonah 3:1-5,10 • Ninevah Encouraged to Repent Mark 1:14-20 • The Call To Discipleship The suggested Psalm for today which we did not read is Psalm 6. Basically the Psalm calls on us to be still, and wait for or know, God. The readings this week offer us a challenge…when
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1 Samuel 3:1-20 • God calls Samuel Psalm 139 • God has searched and known me. Samuel had a sudden intuitive perception of insight into reality. The person who was calling him was God. His epiphany moment was when he recognized God’s voice and listened deeply. Are you ready and
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Ephesians 3:1-12 • Boldness through faith. Matthew 2:1-12 • The visit of the magi. On Epiphany Sunday we are invited to seek and discover what is being revealed through the power of the Holy Spirit. The power of the Holy Spirit moves through us and in us causing great and
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Jeremiah 31:7-14 Gathered in Joy John 1:10-18 • The Word was in the world. We feel as if we have been in exile…cut off from all we know and love. We are looking for “normal”, nothing spectacular just a chance to gather around a campfire with friends and hear the
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Isaiah 61:10-62:3 • Clothed in salvation and righteousness. Luke 2:22-40 • Jesus is presented in the temple. To be presented is to be known and it is a way to proclaim our intentions. This rite of passage for Jesus is one that acknowledges that we all have much to learn
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Scriptures: Luke 1:47-55 • Song of Mary. Luke 1:26-38 • The Angel Gabriel visits Mary. When the word becomes flesh and dwells among us the incarnate God becomes nomadic. God is more interested in being housed in people than in buildings and the story of Mary is the beginning of
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Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 • The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. John 1:6-8,19-28 • John testifies to the Light. The Acceptable Year of the Lord, Year of God’s favour, the Year of Jubilee all refer to a sabbatical year where debts are forgiven, labourers are freed, the land is
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Isaiah 40:1-11 • Comfort, O comfort my people. Mark 1:1-8 • The proclamation of John the Baptist Are we ready to hear the cries for comfort? Are we ready to listen for the whispered words of God, gently guiding us in the wilderness? How will our patience bring peace in
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Isaiah 64:1-9 • We are the clay and you are our potter. Now consider, we are all your people. Mark 13:24-37 • We will never know when God may appear in our midst. Be awake. Be alert. Entering a time of waiting in the midst of Covid-19 seems redundant at
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