C06: The Second Sunday after Christmas Day, Year C (2022)
December 27, 2021
“My mother would tell you, flat out, that her favorite Gospel was the Gospel of John…A lot of people agree,” begins Scott Spencer, author and New Testament scholar. He continues, “It’s hard to match John’s...
C05: The First Sunday after Christmas Day, Year C (2021)
December 20, 2021
“The “Lost Years”…sounds like a suspense TV series…“The Lost Years” can also refer to a big chunk of Jesus’s life,” says Scott Spencer, author and New Testament scholar. He continues, “From infancy to 30, we...
A18: The Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
March 23, 2020
“Can you smell that?” asks Scott Spencer’s wife. “No dear,” he replies, not to fret her, but because he genuinely doesn’t smell it. Spencer, author and New Testament scholar, says of today’s passage, John 11:1-45,...
C42: The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
September 9, 2019
Most of us can recite Psalm 23 from memory…”The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want…” In today’s sermon from Luke 15:1-10, New Testament scholar, author, professor, and preacher, Scott Spencer, gives us a...
C09: The Third Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2019)
January 21, 2019
In this Sunday’s sermon from Luke 4:14-21, New Testament scholar Scott Spencer says, “Just as everyone remembers their first kiss, so preachers remember their first sermons. In both cases it’s usually a bittersweet memory.” But...