Date: December 27, 2015
Bible Text: Psalm 104 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God. —Psalm 104.21 The father of the little boy who would grow up to become the famous Francis of Assisi was a wealthy Italian who made a fortune selling cloth in Paris. He lovedDate: December 24, 2015
Bible Text: Luke 2:1–20; John 1:3–5 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcomeDate: December 20, 2015
Bible Text: Luke 1:5–25, 59–80 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways. —Luke 1:76 Before Luke tells us the story of the birth of our Lord, he tells us the story of the birth of JohnDate: December 17, 2015
Bible Text: John 1:1–5, 14 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
One: This is our hope, the thing for which we wait: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not oneDate: December 6, 2015
Bible Text: Isaiah 60:1–22; Luke 2:8–14 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among people of good will. —Luke 2:14 If you are Catholic, or once were Catholic, or even if you listen to any sacred choral music at all, you know that generically a Gloria—any Gloria—is the second obligatoryDate: November 29, 2015
Bible Text: Luke 21:25–36 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. —Luke 21:26 Advent wraps us up in beginning and end; alpha and omega. Advent is, as holidays go, the New Year’s celebration of theDate: November 26, 2015
Bible Text: Psalm 121 | Reverend Dr. Jo Forrest
Date: November 22, 2015
Bible Text: Revelation 1:4–8 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. —Revelation 1:8 Nohemi Gonzales was a star in the design department at California State University in Long Beach. She was a junior, a first-generationDate: November 15, 2015
Bible Text: Mark 10:46–52 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Then Jesus said to him, ‘What do you want me to do for you?’ The blind man said to him, ‘My teacher, let me see again’ —Mark 10:51 Sometimes the world is not very helpful to the differently-abled, especially the blind. For example in that storyDate: November 8, 2015
Bible Text: Mark 9:30–37 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me. —Mark 9:37 I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee; I done wrestled with an alligator; I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed