“This Is the Way” (A23: Fifth Sunday of Easter)
Acts 7:55-60; Psalm 31:1-5,15-16; 1 Peter 2:2-10; John 14:1-14 Speight focuses on John 14 — and Jesus’ passage about being “the way, the truth and the life.” Says Speight: “For us, the Way is not...
“A Noontime Visitation” (A15: Third Sunday in Lent)
Exodus 17:1-7; Psalm 95; Romans 5:1-11; John 4:5-42 Wyatt unpacks the practical and narrative significance of wells as locations. “John is setting up a familiar story pattern,” she says, “in order to reel us in...
“Baptism As Beginning” (A07: First Sunday After the Epiphany)
Isaiah 42:1-9; Psalm 29; Acts 10:34-43; Matthew 3:13-17 Fox reflects on both his own baptism and that of Jesus. “After my river baptism,” says Fox, “it would be another thirty years before I learned what...
“Touching Jesus” (A06: Second Sunday After Christmas)
Jeremiah 31:7-14 or Sirach 24:1-12; Psalm 147:12-20 or Wisdom of Solomon 10:15-21; Ephesians 1:3-14; John 1:(1-9), 10-18 Treadway focuses on the passage in John about the “Word becoming flesh,” and he asks what the implications...
“Fear Not” (C07: Baptism of the Lord)
Dr. Ridenour explores the prophet Isaiah’s words to the people of Judah, as they face a fearful future. However, Ridenour also gives us the assurance of God’s presence by looking of Jesus’ baptism. Dr. Randy...