A Song For Our Time
May 24, 2026
Pentecost Sunday – Year A
Acts 2:1-21
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(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Sources: 1) Juliana Kim and Emma Bowman, “The San Diego mosque shooting victims remembered as heroes for protecting children,” NPR National News, May 20, 2026. Accessed May 23, 2026: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/20/nx-s1-5827053/san-diego-mosque-shooting-victims
2) Richard Winton and Paige St. John, “Social media, manifesto of San Diego mosque shooters rooted in white nationalism,” Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2026. Accessed May 23, 2026: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-20/san-diego-attack-manifesto
3) “History of Hymns: ‘Jesus Loves the Little Children,’” Discipleship Ministries, The United Methodist Church, Oct. 20, 2021. Accessed May 23, 2026: https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/articles/history-of-hymns-jesus-loves-the-little-children
Time to Decide
May 17, 2026
7th Sunday of Easter – Year A
Acts 1:6-14
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Source: Randle R. Mixon, “Acts 1:6-14 Pastoral Perspective,” Feasting on the Word: Year A, Volume 2: Lent through Eastertide (Feasting on the Word: Year A volume), edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Bartlett, Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2010. Kindle edition, Page 1239 & 1240.
Open Hearts Make Room for the Stranger
April 19, 2026
3rd Sunday of Easter Year A
Luke 24:13-35; Acts 2:14a,36-41; 1 Peter 1:17-23
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(The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
1 David Senior, “Luke 24:13-35 Exegetical Perspective,” Feasting on the Word: Year A, Volume 2: Lent through Eastertide (Feasting on the Word: Year A volume), edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Bartlett, Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2010. Kindle edition. Page 1005, Location 14377.
2 Molly T. Marshall, “Luke 24:13-35 Theological Perspective,” Feasting on the Word: Year A, Volume 2: Lent through Eastertide (Feasting on the Word: Year A volume), edited by David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Bartlett, Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2010. Kindle edition. Page 999, Locations 14289,14293, 14294.
Growing in the Spirit
March 24, 2026
5th Sunday in Lent
Ezekiel 37:1-14, Romans 8:6-11
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SOURCES:
- Sean Rowe and Johathan Rauch, “Truth that Binds Us: Faith, Trust, and the Restoration of
Community,” 2026 EPN Annual Conference. https://youtu.be/HPvDtHBUSOg?si=CIAV8XLAQl-
rHEEp - Sean Winter and Kylie Crabbe, “A219 Lent 5,” By the Well Podcast.
https://bythewell.com.au/?search=A219 - Barbara Brown Taylor, “Growing Deep, Not High,” Pathways, 2021-2022 Issue, The Episcopal
Diocese of Atlanta, https://pathways.squarespace.com/
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