Sermon and Readings from Sunday, February 26.

In 2023 (year A), the readings for the First Sunday in Lent are:

OT Lesson Genesis 2:4-9,15-17,25-3:7
Psalm Psalm 51 (Coverdale)
NT Lesson Romans 5:12-21
Gospel Matthew 4:1-11

Together with Ash Wednesday’s sermon, this sermon is the first of a Lenten series on a theme of returning to where we should be, using as a parallel the “Home Free” collaboration between the National Runaway Safeline and Greyhound Bus Lines, in which Greyhound provides a free ride home for runaway young people who have reconsidered their position.

Sermon and Readings from Sunday, February 12.

In 2023 (year A), the readings for the 6th Sunday of Epiphany are:

OT Lesson Isaiah 49:1-7
Psalm Psalm 67 (Coverdale)
NT Lesson Acts 1:1-8
Gospel Matthew 9:35-38

This Sunday is World Mission Sunday, and this service also celebrates the baptism of Jonah Lee Grissom, so this week’s sermon is in two parts: The first ten minutes is about Mission Sunday, and then at exactly 10:00 segues into an introduction of Jonah, for his baptism.