Sermon for Easter 3 C | 01.05.2022 | Acts 9:1-20; Rev. 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 | Beth A. Schlegel | Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed, Alleluia! … During this Easter season we are focusing on the resurrection of Jesus as fostering UNITY. We all need unity – unity of mind, of will, of…
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Sermon for the Epiphany of our Lord – January 6, 2022 | by The Rev. Beth A. Schlegel | Matthew 2:1-12 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men[a] from the east came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star…
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Sermon for the 15th Sunday after Pentecost Year B | Mark 7:24-37 and Psalm 146| by Beth A. Schlegel | 24[Jesus] set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice,25but a woman whose little…
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Sermon for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost | The Rev. Beth A. Schlegel | Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 | 1Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around [Jesus], 2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3…
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Sermon for the Day of Pentecost | May 23, 2021 | The Rev. Beth A. Schlegel | Scripture Reading: Acts 2:1-21 1When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house…
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Sermon for the Second Sunday of Easter Year B | 11 April 2021 | John 20:19-31 | by The Rev. Beth A. Schlegel | When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews,…
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March 14, 2021 | John 3:14-21 | Beth A. Schlegel | Numbers 21:4-9; Psalm 107; John 3:14-21 [Jesus said:] 14“Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16“For God so loved the world that he…
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Sermon for the third Sunday in Advent | The Rev. Beth A. Schlegel | Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 | John 1:6-8, 19-28 | 6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. 8He himself was not the…
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Sermon for All Saints’ Day November 1, 2020 | By The Rev. Beth A. Schlegel | Matthew 5:1-12 and Revelation 7: 9-17 Matthew 5:1-12 1When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. 2Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying: 3“Blessed are the…
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The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost – July 26, 2020 | Romans 8:26-39 | The Rev. Beth A. Schlegel | Romans 8:26-39 26The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. 27And God, who searches the heart,…
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Sermon for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A – 5 July 2020 | Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 | The Rev. Beth A. Schlegel | “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, 17 “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;…
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The Third Sunday of Easter – April 26, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic | Sermon on Luke 24:13-35 | by the Rev. Beth A. Schlegel | 13Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, 14and talking with each other about all these things that…
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