God Is With Us
December 22, 2019
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
4th Sunday of Advent, Year A
Matthew 1:18-25, Isaiah 7:10-16
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Sources:
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Eternal Love, Eternal Life
November 10, 2019
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
Proper 27, Year C
Luke 20:27-38
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Gospel:
Luke 20:27-38
Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.”
Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.”
The Power of Persistence
October 20, 2019
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
Proper 24, Year C
Luke 18:1-8; Genesis 32:22-31
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Gospel Text:
Luke 18:1-8
Jesus told his disciples a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, `Grant me justice against my opponent.’ For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, `Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.'” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
The Holy Work of Healing Our Crippled Spirit
August 25, 2019
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
Proper 16, Year C
Luke 13:10-17
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