Church of the Servant

14th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 17 - Year A
Matthew 16:21-28

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keys to kingdom

stamped

            Meeks book

Sources:

Link to Coastline Replay:  https://www.whqr.org/show/coastline/2023-08-29/coastline-racial-healing-activists-of-all-races-need-to-interrogate-themselves-first-says-dr-catherine-meeks

Church of the Servant

8th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 11 - Year A
Matthew 13:24-30,36-43

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MCI Chart and Decline

                 wheat and tares

Close up of ripe wheat ears

Sources:  

  1. Jody Greenwood’s Notes from “Making Our Memory Stick”, Len Lecci, Phd, Osher Lifetime Learning Institute, March 2021.

Sowing God-Stories

July 16, 2023

Church of the Servant

7th Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 10 - Year A
Matthew 13:1-9,18-23

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The Gospel according to Sam

sowers guide

You Lost Me

sowing

Sources:

  1. William Miller, The Gospel According to Sam: Animal Stories for the Soul, Seabury Books, (New York: 2005), p. xii.  

The Mud of Christ

March 19, 2023

Church of the Servant

4th Sunday in Lent - Year A
John 9:1-41; Ephesians 5:8-14

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                       mud of Jesus

bright eyes

children of light

Sources:

Fred Craddock, The Collected Sermons of Fred B. Craddock, Westminster John Knox Press, 2011.