Between Mark and our lectionary we have gotten the 6th chapter in what probably feels like a random selection. Especially today when we have a bit from the middle and a bit from the end of the chapter, so let me give you a brief overview of this chapter. We began three weeks ago withContinue reading “8 Pentecost 2021”
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4th Sunday of Easter 2021
The story of the Good Shepherd is one most of us have heard many times and it brings to mind the pastoral images of Jesus as sweet and kind, but I want us to look closer at this story and what it is saying about who Jesus is. To do so, I want to backContinue reading “4th Sunday of Easter 2021”
4 Easter 2020
What does it mean to be the church in the middle of a pandemic, in the middle of the post-Christian era, in a global community, but a highly divided and polarized country? What does it mean to be the Church today? We get three glimpses this morning of what it meant to be the churchContinue reading “4 Easter 2020”
The Rev. Beverly Patterson 