Tag: Boldness
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Advent 4 20141220 Luke 1:39-55 “It’s That Time of Year” RSUMC

Mary’s news is to be shared at home and throughout the hill side with leaps of Joy. In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her…
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Advent3 Luke 3:7-18 “Do We Bring Fire?” RSUMC 20141213
John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones…
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Matthew 21:23-32 “Will You or Won’t You?” RSUMC 20140929
When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?” Jesus said to them, “I will also ask you one question; if you tell me the answer, then I…
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Titus 2:11-14 “Zeal for Good” JUMC XmasEve 20131224
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly, while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.…
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2 Cor 3.12-4.2 “Act with Great Boldness” A Transfiguration Call to Witness JUMC 20130210
Mt Tabor: Mount of the Transfiguration of our Lord NRSV Lectionary Readings for Transfiguration Sunday Exodus 34:29-35 Moses came down from Mount Sinai. As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been…
