Sermons

The Fifth Sunday After the Epiphany

February 8, 2026

Larry began by remembering his friend Erica, saying “Erika Easter was my friend and l loved her. She was the owner of Day Z who l loved equally. They both passed away I. December of 2025 and l will miss them both. My soul is broken along with my heart. May God bless them both.”

He then reminded us that Isaiah’s words in this morning’s reading are as true now as they were 2500 years ago, saying “We can make our world beautiful by the way we treat each other, or we can make it a very unpleasant place to be.…

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The Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany

February 1, 2026

Dave defined the words “Epiphany” and “Manifest” for the children, and asked them to find as many words as they could using the letters of each word. He reminded the congregation of the Christmas story, and how the arrival of the 3 Wise Men (or Kings) is now celebrated as the Feast of the Epiphany. He then said that the revelation of God continues throughout the season. The text of his Word for All Ages is not yet available.…

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The Third Sunday After the Epiphany

January 25, 2026

Prayer:
I certainly do not know everything
I do not even know how much I don’t know;
Nor do I know how much of what I know is impartial, faulty or false
So, I pray, we pray…
Source of all truth
Help us to hunger for truth
Even if it upsets, nullifies or overturns what we already think is true.
Guide us into all the truth we can bare, even if it stings or angers us
And stretch us to bare even more
So that we may always choose the whole truth and help a hurting and desperate world.…

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The Second Sunday After the Epiphany

January 18, 2026

At the beginning of our 50^th year as a community, separate from our parent Church of the Saviour, we have three different understandings of call. Isaiah is called by God before his birth, while in his mother’s womb. In Paul’s letter to the church in Corinth, he says that his recipients are “called to be saints” along with all others who claim Jesus as the Christ. And in John’s gospel, we hear John the Baptist announce the meaning of Jesus’ life with three different holy titles: Lamb of God, Son of God, and the Messiah or promised one.…

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The Feast of the Baptism of Jesus

January 11, 2026

In case you thought that taking down your Christmas decorations on January 6 meant the holiday season is finally over, I have some news. Today is the Feast of the Baptism of Jesus, which extends the notion of celebration for another week. Once upon a time – in the year 300, or so – Christians celebrated both Epiphany and Jesus’ baptism at the same time, on January 6. But in a break from tradition, In the mid-20^th-century deliberations around reforming the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church (and eventually all the major Western denominations) liturgical scholars advised separating them in the liturgical calendar so that the Wise Folk from the East could come and go home by another route before we skip over 30 years to the story of Jesus meeting up with his cousin John to be baptized in the Jordan river in solidarity with all the sinners who wanted to turn away from evil and find a fresh start in their relationship with God, with themselves, and with other people.…

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