Stephen Speaks
May 3, 2026
5th Sunday of Easter – Year A
Acts 7:55-60; John 14:1-14
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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
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