Reformation Sunday – Revelation 14:6-7 “Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth – to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people…” This verse from the Book of Revelation – chapter 14, verse 6 – was interpreted in the earlier…
Matthew 9:1-8 In today’s Gospel from St. Matthew, we heard the story of the paralytic whose friends brought him to Jesus, with the hope that Jesus would heal him. This story also appears in the Gospels of Mark and Luke, who add the detail that the man’s friends, because of the crowds, opened up the…
James 4:1-10 Please listen with me to a reading from the fourth chapter of the Epistle of St. James, beginning at the first verse. “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You…
1 Kings 17:17-24 We are told in the First Book of Kings – in the section of that book that immediately precedes the verses that were read as today’s Old Testament lesson – that during a time of severe drought, the Lord told the prophet Elijah: “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and…