Sunday, May 28, 2023 – Day of Pentecost
Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:25-35,37; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13; John 7:37-39 Mr. Chris Paul, Seminarian Happy Pentecost Day and Happy Birthday to the church! I feel like we should be having this big birthday celebration with a barbeque on the front lawn with kids running around with headbands that have flames on their heads, but I suppose […]
Sunday, May 21, 2023 – Easter 7
Acts 1:6-14; Psalm 68:1-10,33-36; 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11, John 17:1-11 The Rev. Drew Brislin After retiring from teaching for more than thirty years in the Dallas County School System, my dad and my stepmother decided like so many folks to retire to the beach. My dad spent many of those years teaching junior high band […]
Sunday, May 14, 2023 – Easter 6
Acts 17:22-31; Psalm 66:7-18; 1 Peter 3:13-22; John 14:15-21 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer In the early 1940s a young GI wrote to his sister from overseas. He was homesick and weary of the war, though he knew its necessity and importance. Trying hard to overcome a despair that might easily catch him unawares, he spoke of […]
Sunday, May 7, 2023 – Easter 5
Acts 7:55-60; Psalm 31:1-5,15-16 1 Peter 2:2-10; John 14:1-14 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Stephen Is not one of the original disciples. He seems to have converted after Jesus’ ascension. He knows the Jewish story well and when challenged by the religious authority, retells the story of the Patriarchs pointing out the failings of man while highlighting […]
Sunday, April 30, 2023 – Easter 4
Acts 2:42-47; Psalm 23:1-6 1 Peter 2:19-25; John 10:1-10 Mr. Chris Paul, Seminarian The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want. Psalm 23 is one of the most familiar and popular Psalms we hear. We come to this fourth Sunday in Easter, celebrating the Good Shepherd, and we hear about it in Psalm […]
Sunday, April 23, 2023 – Easter 3
Acts 2: 14a, 36-41; Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17 1 Peter 1:17-23; Luke 24:13-35 The Rev. Drew Brislin Earlier this week I had the pleasure of visiting with one of my seminary classmates and her family. We met in Tuscaloosa as she and her husband were in town with their daughter to visit the University of Alabama […]
Sunday, February 26, 2023 – Lent 1
Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7; Psalm 32; Romans 5:12-19; Matthew 4:1-11 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Serpent in the garden, Satan in the wilderness—every year most of us approach Lent from the place of temptation believing we are not enough and that God can only love us if we give something up or take something on or be […]
Sunday, February 12, 2023 – 6 Epiphany
Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Psalm 119:1-8 I Corinthians 3:1-9; Matthew 5:21-37 The Rev. Drew Brislin Whenever I think back on my experiences in scouting, I am inevitably drawn back to the many friendships made during those formative years of my youth. Those friendships were forged in the many communal activities in which we participated which included though not […]
Sunday, February 5, 2023 – 5 Epiphany
Isaiah 58:1-9a, (9b-12); Psalm 112:1-10; I Corinthians 2:1-16; Matthew 5:13-20 The Rev. Candice B. Frazer Whenever Steve and I return home from a trip—be it down to the beach or over to Selma or coming back from Birmingham—and it is after dark, we always make a point to turn down Lawrence St. off the interstate so […]
Sunday, January 29, 2023 – 4 Epiphany
Micah 6:1-8; Psalm 15 I Corinthians 1:18-31; Matthew 5:1-12 The Rev. Drew Brislin There is a quote from The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that comes from an interview he gave just months before his assassination in which he says, “It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, […]