O Key of David and scepter of the House of Israel; you open and no one can shut; you shut and no one can open: Come and lead the prisoners from the prison house, those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death. Advent Wednesday December 2 2015 Several years ago, right smack in…
For Midweek Lenten Services this year we are focusing on a series of words associated with the preparation of ashes for Ash Wednesday: Gather, Burn, Crush, Sift, Mix, Pour, Bless This is from the first week, Gather. I gather the palms for burning. Gather together all the palm fronds to form a bundle. Gather them…
This is the final sermon in a Lenten series on the Sign of Jonah Text: Jonah 4 Matthew 12:38-41 We have come to the end of a long journey with Jonah. It’s been an interesting though rough one hasn’t it? Running from God’s call, Jonah hopped a boat to Tarshish. God sent a storm on…
For what seems like almost all of my life, I have been in love with the Old Testament. It started when I was a child with all the wonderful bible stories about David, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Adam and Eve, and Jonah, too. To me, there seemed to be tremendous grace in the Old Testament.…
This is part of a sermon series on the Sign of Jonah Text: Jonah 3:1-4 Typically, I do not like to start my sermons with a joke, but one of our parishioners told me this last week and it made me think of Jonah. A burglar breaks into a house when no one is home…
Shepherdess Writes 