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What About Nicodemus?

Answer to his question: A new birth that reclaims Jesus John 3:1-17 1Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you […]

Connected to the Vine

Jesus tells us: We are connected! Our scripture readings for worship come from the Revised Common Lectionary. The readings are chosen to follow the flow of our church year, and are used by Protestant churches that follow what we call a “liturgical year.” In the season of Easter (and yes, we’re still in Easter!), the […]

Easter Joy Follows Good Friday Grief

Our ‘Easter Moment’ means working through grief, fear, doubt 1When the abbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint [Jesus’ body]. 2And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3They had been […]

Maundy Thursday command: Love and Serve

Maundy Thursday story gives us our job description 1Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2The devil had already put it into the heart […]

God wants to restore us

Jesus’ healing restores us to ourselves, each other When I was in seminary, the comment that I saw most often, in red pencil in the columns of the papers I wrote for my class for study of the Hebrew scriptures was: “Get out of the 20th century!” Today’s text: Mark 1:29-31 – Jesus heals Simon’s […]