Date: March 29, 2020

Bible Text: Luke 4:14–21 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Click here to listen to this sermon. The mind is an old crow Who knows only to gather dead twigs, Then take them back to the vacancy Between the branches of the parent tree And entwine them around the emptiness With silence and unfailing patience Until what was fallen, withered and lost

Date: February 23, 2020

Bible Text: Luke 9:28–36 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Click here to listen to this sermon. Just as they were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here; —Luke 9:33   I have long felt disconnected from this mountain top story: Jesus’ transfiguration is unfamiliar, often skipped over and full of mystical, science-fiction tinged

Date: February 2, 2020

Bible Text: Psalm 139 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

8 a.m. Psalm 139 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my

Date: October 6, 2019

Bible Text: Ecclesiastes 3:1–8; John 1:1–5 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Click here to listen to this sermon.   For everything there is a season, and time for every matter under heaven   —Ecclesiastes 3:1   Ecclesiastes 3 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a

Date: August 25, 2019

Bible Text: Matthew 14:13–21 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Click here to listen to this sermon. “Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the

Date: August 18, 2019

Bible Text: Mark 14:12–26 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Click here to listen to this sermon. While they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.”—Mark 14:22 On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was sacrificed, the disciples

Date: July 28, 2019

Bible Text: Galatians 5:22–23; Ezekiel 34:17–31 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Click here to listen to this sermon. Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the rest of you pasture?  — Ezekiel 34:18   In preparation for Worship: The Well Rising, by William E. Stafford The well rising

Date: June 23, 2019

Bible Text: Isaiah 9:2–7 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Click here to listen to this sermon. Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.  —Isaiah 9:6   The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice

Date: April 28, 2019

Bible Text: Luke 24:13–35 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Click here to listen to this sermon.   Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight.  —Luke 24:31 Luke 24:13–35 On that same day, two disciples were traveling to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking to each other

Date: March 6, 2019

Bible Text: Psalm 51 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love. —Psalm 51:1   A Meditation on Ash Wednesday Author and poet Kathleen Norris spends time as an artist in residence at religious schools around the country. She invites children into the gift of creative writing by reading