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Sixth Sunday after Epiphany
Grace to you and peace from God, our Creator and our Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen. Now I am going to bring us back, for a moment, to the high school days. Perhaps, a literature course where you may have had some required readings. If you were like me, you may have skipped some of those readings but one that I still remember is “As I Lay Dying,” by William Faulkner…
Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
Grace to you and peace from God, our Creator, and our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. I want to begin this morning by thinking about how stories are told. Oftentimes, we hear stories in a straightforward, linear pattern. First, this happens, then the next thing, and finally, a conclusion…
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
Today’s gospel is the conclusion of a narrative arc that we started last Sunday. In case you forgot where we are in the story: Jesus was in his hometown, and he read from Isaiah in the synagogue. This passage builds out the vision of God’s plan to “bring good news to the poor…proclaim release to the captives…sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”