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Sermon, January 23, 2022 – Epiphany III

Telling Stories There is a wonderful celebration in the Jewish community at the end of Sukkoth, also known as the Feast of Tabernacles – which recalls the people of Israel wandering in the wilderness for forty years.  The celebration is known as Simcat Torah, which means “Rejoicing in the Torah.”  In this celebration, the final […]

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Sermon, January 9, 2022 – Feast of the Baptism of our Lord (Epiphany 1)

Baptism Today our celebration centers around the Baptism of our Lord by his cousin, John the Baptist.  This feast is always celebrated on the first Sunday after the Epiphany and marks the close of our Christmas observance.  This entire Epiphany season invites us to reflect on Jesus’ baptism and its importance for us who follow […]

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Sermon, January 2, 2022 – Christmas II

We’ve Got Work to Do Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! This year we are blest with having two Sundays in the Twelve Days of Christmas. Depending on what day of the week Christmas falls determines how many Sundays in Christmastide we’ll have. In this morning’s Gospel, Luke tells us about an incident in Jesus’ life […]