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A Smile on the Face of the Owl
May 13, 2012 Listen First reading from the Confession of 1967 Excerpts begin with Part 1 Section C. The Confession is available here on the PCUSA website as a pdf. Acts 11:1-18 Now the apostles and the believers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of [...]
Living Love: Bearing Fruit
May 6, 2012 1 John 4:7-21 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the [...]
Living Love: Ground Breaking Growth
April 29, 2012 Listen Exodus 20:1-17 Then God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that [...]
Living Love: Sacred Seed
April 23, 2012 Listen Psalm 8 To the leader: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, [...]
Living Love: Fertile
April 15, 2012 Listen 1 John 1:1-2:2 We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— this life was revealed, and we have seen it and [...]
The Winner Is…
April 8, 2012 Listen Mark 16:1-11 When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. They had been [...]
Pushing Them Over the Edge
April 1, 2012 Listen I Kings 19:1-10 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, ‘So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the [...]
Love Wins: The Very Good News
March 25, 2012 Luke 15:1-7 Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, ‘This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So he told them this parable: ‘Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing [...]
Love Wins: Dying to Live
March 18, 2012 Listen Isaiah 53:1-9 Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at [...]
Love Wins: Does God Get What God Wants
March 11, 2012 Listen Romans 9:14-18 What then are we to say? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means!For he says to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.’ So it depends not on human will or exertion, [...]
