Welcome to Advent

Sunday, December 1, 2024Jeremiah 33:14-161 Thessalonians 3:9-13Luke 21:25-36Psalm 25:1-9 Remember not the sins of my youth and my transgressions; remember me according to your love and for the sake of your goodness, O Lord.Psalm 25:6 Welcome to Advent! Last year at this time I was fully retired with only an occasional Sunday supply responsibility. In orderContinueContinue reading “Welcome to Advent”

TRANSFIGURED

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.[Romans 8:38-39 NRSV] Some 21 years ago, when IContinueContinue reading “TRANSFIGURED”

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

[John] went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah,‘The voice of one crying out in the wilderness:“Prepare the way of the Lord,   make his paths straight.Every valley shall be filled,   and every mountain and hillContinueContinue reading “UNDER CONSTRUCTION”