Servants Song
January 11, 2026
1st Sunday after Epiphany
Isaiah 42:1-9
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Celebrating Servants Sunday – “This little light of mine”
1 Richard F. Ward, “Isaiah 42:1-9; Homiletic Perspective,” Feasting on the Word: Year A,
Volume 1: Advent through Transfiguration (Feasting on the Word: Year A volume). Editors:
David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor, Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2010. Kindle
edition. Page 527, Location 7526.
Pondering Prayer
December 25, 2025
Christmas Eve
Luke 2:1-20
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1 Irwin Keller, “Prayer for Reading the News,” Irwin Keller website, April 11, 2022, accessed
12/24/2025: https://www.irwinkeller.com/itzikswell/2022/4/11/prayer-for-reading-the-news.
Jesus: One-on-One
December 14, 2025
3rd Sunday of Advent Year A
Matthew 11:2-11
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1 Doris Kearns Goodwin, “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” (New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2006), Audio book.
2 N.T. Wright, quoted in an article by Leah MarieAnn Klett, “NT Wright: Western Christians
have misread Heaven, the End Times, spiritual warfare,” The Christian Post, Dec. 2, 2025.
Accessed 12/12/2025: https://www.christianpost.com/books/nt-wright-why-western-
christians-have-misread-heaven.html
Advent: A Season of Hope
November 30, 2025
1st Sunday of Advent Year A
Isaiah 2:1-5; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44; Psalm 122
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Sister Karen Kapell speaks with Mildred “Tinker” Schuman, a tribal member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians as part of a ceremony on October 31, 2025 that celebrated the historic land transfer. (Courtesy of Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration)
Bishop James Powers, John D. Johnson, Sr., Tribal President of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, and Sister Sue Ernster pose in front of the Marywood property which was returned to the Tribe on October 31, 2025. (Courtesy of Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration)
1 Adam Borneman, “The Three C’s of the Apocalypse: Proclaiming God’s Advent as Clash,
Comfort, Calling,” Journal for Preachers: Advent 2025, Volume XLIX, Number 1, The Ministry
Collaborative: 2025, 21, 22, 24.
2 Robin Washington, “Catholic nuns in Wisconsin return land bought in 1966 to an Indigenous
tribe,” NPR Weekend Edition Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. Accessed 11/29/2025:
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/29/nx-s1-5615173/catholic-nuns-in-wisconsin-return-land-
bought-in-1966-to-an-indigenous-tribe
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