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Second Sunday after Epiphany
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Paul Galbreath
Call and response: discipleship and testimony are primary motifs in the readings for this week. The preacher speaks a word from the gospel and the congregation offers an affirmative response. The ensuing dialogue lifts the rhetoric to new heights and together the community experiences the Spirit infusing their lives with a desire to follow Christ. This simple pattern is filled out in our readings... Read more...
Stephen L. Cook
Today's lessons celebrate the end of human alienation and estrangement, and the inbreaking of a new intimacy with God. At a shadow time for Israel, the first reading portrays God's revelation of the divine self to Samuel, initiating a new connection between God and God's people. Similarly, in the Gospel reading Jesus reveals his identity connecting heaven and earth, bridging the yawning gap... Read more...
Deborah Krause
After observing the Baptism of Our Lord, the lectionaries commence to remember the ministry of Jesus. On the Second Sunday after the Epiphany, the ministry is cast in Jesus' calling of disciples and the story of the call of Samuel. In this sense the day offers the opportunity to focus on the concept of vocation both in terms of God's call and in terms of the response of people to that call. The... Read more...
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A View from the Hill: Editor's Weblog
David B. Lott
Editor of New Proclamation
The Ascension of Our Lord /
Seventh Sunday of Easter
May 25/May 28, 2006
The texts that become the focus for your preaching this week will depend in large part in how (and if) your congregation celebrates the Ascension. Some churches will commemorate this festival on its designated day, May 25. Others will take the "moveable feast" option and celebrate it on Sunday, rather than continue the Easter progression... Read more...
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