The Clay and the Potter

December 3, 2023

Church of the Servant

1st Sunday of Advent
Year B
Isaiah 64:1-9


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Unfinished Clay

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Turn then, and Live

October 1, 2023

Church of the Servant

18th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 21 - Year A - Creation Liturgy
Ezekiel 18:1-4,25-32; Philippians 2:1-13; Matthew 21:23-32

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Advocacy Depends on Hope

September 24, 2023

Church of the Servant

17th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 20 - Year A - Creation Liturgy
Jonah 3:10-4:11; Philippians 1:21-30; Matthew 20:1-16

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For God So Loved the World

Hope is a verb

Sources:

Catherine Meeks, The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations for Racial Healing (Church Publishing Incorporated, 2022), Kindle edition, 122.

David Orr, Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 115.

Don’t Quarrel. Do Good.

September 17, 2023

Church of the Servant

16th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 19 - Year A - Creation Liturgy
Romans 14:1-12; Matthew 18:21-25

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Welcome

Elizabeth I

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work for peace

Sources:

Season of Creation: A Celebration Guide for Episcopal Parishes 2023, the Rev. John Elliott Lein and the Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas assemblers.

Wendell Berry,

Pope John Paul II Pastoral Letter