Date: February 9, 2020
Bible Text: Deuteronomy 4:9–24; Malachi 3:2–3 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Click here to listen to this sermon. For the Lord is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap, who will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, until they present offerings to the Lord in righteousness. —Malachi 3:2–3 It’s remarkable to notice how often inDate: 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 myDate: January 26, 2020
Bible Text: Genesis 2:4–7; John 3:1–8 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Click here to listen to this sermon. The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. —John 3:8 For the ancient Greeks, Earth,Date: January 19, 2020
Bible Text: Matthew 7:24–27 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Click here to listen to this sermon. Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did notDate: January 12, 2020
Bible Text: Genesis1:1–13 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Click here to listen to this sermon. And God said, 'Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the water that were gathered together he called Seas. And GodDate: January 5, 2020
Bible Text: Matthew 2:1–12 | Reverend Christine V. Hides
Click here to listen to this sermon. Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage. —Psalm 74:10 Today’s reading will be familiar to you. According to my count we have shared theDate: December 29, 2019
Bible Text: Romans 8:18–25 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Click here to listen to this reflection. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God. —Romans 8:19 God in Christ came to earth to redeem humanity from its brokenness, but in his letter to the church at Rome, Paul promises that allDate: December 24, 2019
Bible Text: Luke 2:15–20 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Click here to listen to this sermon. to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. —Luke 2:11 Great teachers find creative ways to teach important and complicated truths. A Chemistry teacher I know teaches her science class by having herDate: December 22, 2019
Bible Text: John 1:1–18 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Click here to listen to this sermon. And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth. —John 1:14 Most of us have little patience for dry abstractions. There are exceptions: CPA’s, actuaries, contractDate: December 15, 2019
Bible Text: Selected verses from John 1:1–14 at 8 a.m. | Reverend Dr. Jo Forrest
The most recognized three-word phrase in the western hemisphere is “In the beginning,” the opening phrase of our Hebrew scriptures. “In the beginning when God created…. God said let there be light…. And God said let us make humankind…” The ancient Israelites composed Genesis’ creation story—of God speaking