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Salt of the Earth by Larry Rawlings
The Fifth Sunday After the Epiphany
February 8, 2026
Larry began by remembering his friend Erica and her dog Daisy, saying “Erika Easter was my friend and l loved her. She was the owner of Daisy, who l loved equally. They both passed away in December of 2025 and l will miss them both. My soul is broken along with my heart. May God bless them both.” He then continued:
You are the salt of the earth, Jesus tells us in today’s gospel reading. I have been thinking a lot about salt this week. I even read the introduction of a New York Times bestselling book on the history of salt called “Salt: A World History.” Salt, Mark Kurlansky reminds us, is the only rock that we eat, and its importance has shaped civilization in all sorts of important ways. We think of salt as something that we put on foods to give them a little more flavor, but the author of this book reminds us that “from the beginning of civilization until about 100 years ago, salt was one of the most sought-after commodities in human history.”
Rejoicing in the Beatitudes: A Word for All Ages by David Lloyd
The Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany
February 1, 2026
I’d like the children and youth to take their piece of paper and write this word on the top:
Epiphany
Now go halfway down the page and write this word:
Manifest
Do any of you kids know what “epiphany” means? If you do, raise your hand.
Do you know what “manifest” means? If you do, raise your hand.
Now I’m going to ask the adults. What does “epiphany” mean? Raise your hand.
Spiritual Sight by Kevin Barwick
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.
Grant us passion to follow wisdom wherever it leads. May it be so.
Our Call Now by Marjory Bankson
The Second Sunday After the Epiphany January 18, 2026 At the beginning of our 50th 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. John’s role is to bear witness, not to be the savior. As we enter this Jubilee Year of being Seekers Church, I’m going to explore the nature of our call as a community in light of these readings. For Isaiah, the 8th century prophet of Israel, call is preordained, built into our DNA. When fertility was understood as a gift from God, call was built into the very tissue of his being. It was his birthright and lifelong obligation to speak what he heard from the Holy One. In some ways, this sounds…
Breaking Tradition by Deborah Sokolove
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-20th-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.