An OTHER Voice
September 9, 2018
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
Proper 18, Year B
Mark 7:24-37, James 2:1-17
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The Heart of a Maverick
September 2, 2018
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
Proper 17, Year B
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
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Necessary Still
August 12, 2018
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
Proper 14, Year B
Ephesians 4:25-5:2
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Text of last year’s reflection here
Scripture Text:
Putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil. Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Purposeful Planting
June 17, 2018
Church of the Servant, Wilmington, NC
Proper 6, Year B
Ezekiel 17:22-24; Mark 4:26-34
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Gospel Text:
Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.”
He also said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.
