Easter 6B | May 5, 2024 | John 15:9–17 | Judson F Merrell | 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love….
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Great Vigil of Easter | March 30, 2024 | John 20:1-18 | Judson F Merrell | Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to…
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John 2:13-22 | Lent 3B | March 3, 2024 | Dr. Judson F Merrell | Lent 3B March 3, 2024 13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 15…
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Christmas Eve | December 24, 2023 | Luke 2:1-20 | Judson F. Merrell | In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 All went to their own towns to be…
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Thanksgiving | November 23, 2023 | Luke 17:11-19 | Judson F Merrell | On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. 12 And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance 13 and lifted up their voices, saying, „Jesus, Master, have mercy on…
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Pentecost 18A | October 1, 2023 | Matthew 21:23-32 | Judson F Merrell | 23 And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, „By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?“ 24…
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Pentecost 11A | August 13, 2023 | Matthew 14:22-33 | Dr. Judson F Merrell, STS | 22 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. 23 And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself…
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Pentecost 4A | June 25, 2023 | Mt 10:24-39 | Judson F Merrell, STS | 24 „A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. 25 It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul,…
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Easter Six | John 14:15-21 | May 14, 2023 | Rev. Dr. Judson F Merrell, STS | 15 „If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world…
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Good Friday | April 7, 2023 | John 18:1-19:42 | Judson F Merrell | The Old Testament tells us that in order to become King of Israel a person must be anointed as King and then proclaimed King (1 Samuel 9-10). Matthew, Mark and Luke all have the baptism story of Jesus. They all include…
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Lent 1 | February 26, 2023 | Matthew 4:1-11 | Judson F Merrell | Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. 3 The tempter came and said to him, „If you are…
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The First Sunday after the Epiphany | Mt 3:13-17 | 01/08/2023 | Judson F Merrell | The Baptism of Our Lord 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. 14 John would have prevented him, saying, „I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to…
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Advent 2 | December 11, 2022 | Matthew 11:2-11 | Judson F Merrell | 2 When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent word by his disciples 3 and said to him, „Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?“ 4 Jesus answered them,…
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Reformation Sunday | October 30, 2022 | John 8:31-36 | Judson F Merrell | 31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, „If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.“ 33 They answered him,…
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Pentecost 14C | September 11, 2022 | A Sermon on Luke 15:1-10 | by Judson F. Merrell | 1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, „This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.“ 3 So he…
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Pentecost 7C | July 24, 2022 | Luke 11:1-13 | Judson F Merrell | He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, „Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.“ 2 He said to them, „When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be…
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Pentecost | June 5, 2022 | John 14:8-17; 25-27 | Dr. Judson F Merrell | 8 Philip said to him, „Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.“ 9 Jesus said to him, „Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me…
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Quasimodogeniti | April 24, 2022 | John 20:19-31 | Rev. Dr. Judson F Merrell | 19 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, Jesus came and stood among them and said, „Peace be…
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Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 | March 27, 2022 | by Judson F Merrell | Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, „This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.“ 3 So he told them this parable: „There was…
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Epiphany 6 | February 13, 2022 | Luke 6:17-26 | by Judson F Merrell | 17 He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. 18 They had come to hear…
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January 2, 2022 | A sermon on John 1:1-18 | by Judson F. Merrell | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came…
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Thanksgiving | November 25, 2021 | A sermon on Matthew 6:25-33 | by The Rev. Dr. Judson F Merrell, STS | 25 „Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food,…
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A sermon on John 6:56-69 | Pentecost 13B August 22, 2021 | by The Rev. Dr. Judson F Merrell, STS | Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats…
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A sermon on Mark 6:1-13 | by The Rev. Dr. Judson F Merrell, STS | Pentecost 6B July 4, 2021 | He left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 2 On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said,…
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A sermon on John 17:6-19 | by the Judson F. Merrell, STS | 6 [Jesus prayed:] „I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given…
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A sermon on Mark 16:1-8 | Easter Sunday April 4, 2021 | by The Rev. Dr. Judson F. Merrell, STS | When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of…
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John 2:13-22 | by the Rev. Dr. Judson F Merrell | 13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 15 Making a whip of cords, he drove all of…
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A sermon on Matthew 2:1-12 | Epiphany, January 6, 2021 | by the Rev. Dr. Judson F Merrell, STS | Matthew 2:1 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2 asking, „Where is the child who has been born king…
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A Sermon on Mark 13:24-37 | November 29, 2020 | by the Rev. Dr. Judson F Merrell, STS | 24 „But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, 25 and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens…
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A sermon on Matthew 22:15-22 | by the Rev. Dr. Judson F Merrell, STS | 15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said. 16 So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, „Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God…
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