1 Advent Isa. 64:1-9 Ps. 80:1-7, 16-18 I Cor. 1:3-9 Mark 13:24-37 The church year begins not with personal resolutions to do better but with a desperate cry for help. “O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence — as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil” (Isa. 64:1-2). God is the fire … [Read more...] about 11/29 Readings: The Heavens Opened
Archives for November 23, 2020
Advent and Christmas Will Look Different This Year
By Neva Rae Fox Correspondent In normal years, with Advent and Christmas rapidly approaching, planning for the traditional observances and events, by this time, would have been completed, publicized, and posted, with rehearsals underway. But 2020 has proven to be far from normal. The status of churches is different across the country. Some are open, some closed, but … [Read more...] about Advent and Christmas Will Look Different This Year
He Cares for His Flock
By Michael Fitzpatrick A Reading from Zechariah 10:1-121 Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, who gives showers of rain to you, the vegetation in the field to everyone. 2For the teraphim utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; the dreamers tell false dreams, and give empty consolation. Therefore the people … [Read more...] about He Cares for His Flock