Refresh: God’s Word
Sunday January 31 2021God’s WordMatthew 4: 1-4; Psalm 119:97-105 NRSVRev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch MATTHEW 4:1-4 NRSV1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. 3 The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But he answered, “It is written, ‘One does not live…
Refresh: God’s Beloved Child
Sunday January 24 2021Refresh: God’s Beloved Child1 John 3:1-3, 4:7-10 NRSV Rev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch 1 See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like…
Refresh: Week Three
January 17 2021Refresh: Week ThreeNEHEMIAH 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 NRSVRev Jessica Wright 1 All the people gathered together into the square before the Water Gate. They told the scribe Ezra to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had given to Israel. 2 Accordingly, the priest Ezra brought the law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could hear with understanding. This was on the first day of the seventh month. 3 He read…
Refresh: Week Two
Sunday January 10 2021Refresh: Week TWOjeremiah 31: 31-34 NRSVRev Mary Beth hardesty-Crouch 31 The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the…
Refresh: Week One
Sunday January 3 2021Refresh Week OneIsaiah 60: 1-6 NRSVRev Mary Beth hardesty-Crouch 1 Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. 2 For darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will appear over you. 3 Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.4 Lift up your eyes and look around; they all…
The Light of The World
Thursday December 24 2020Christmas EveHome With Christ: The Light of the WorldLuke 2: 1-20Rev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch 1 In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 All went to their own towns to be registered. 4 Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem,…
The Word Made Flesh
Sunday December 20 2020Home with Christ: The Word Made FleshJohn 1: 1-5, 14 NRSVRev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 5…
Emmanuel
Sunday December 13 2020Third Sunday of adventHome with Christ: EmmanuelMatthew 1: 22-23; 28: 18-20 NRSVRev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch 22 All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet: 23 “Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,” which means, “God is with us.” Matthew 1:22-23 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19…
Savior
Sunday December 6 2020Second Sunday of AdventHome with Christ: SaviorMatthew 1:20b-21, Luke 2:8-12 Rev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch 20b An angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:20b-21…
The Royal TItles
Sunday November 29 2020The First Sunday of AdventHome with Christ: The Royal TitlesMicah 5:2, Matthew 2:1-2 NRSV JOHN 15:4 MSG“Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can’t bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can’t bear fruit unless you are joined with me.MICAH 5:2 NRSV 2 But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of…
The Word of God
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22The Word of GodJohn 1:1-5, 9-14, 18 NRSVRev Jessica Wright 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the…
The Parable of the Talents
Sunday November 15 2020The Parable of the TalentsRev Mary Beth Hardesty-CrouchMatthew 25:14-30 NRSV 14 “For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; 15 to one he gave five talents,[a] to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 The one who had received the five talents went off at once and traded with them, and made five more talents. 17…