Sacrament Church

Sunday, August 24, 2024

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Sunday, July 28, 2024

Description: In this special event, Fr. Preston walks through all of the movements of a liturgical worship service: vestments, processional, readings, liturgy, etc. explaining some of the meaning behind them.

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Sunday, July 14, 2024 Readings: 2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19 Ephesians 1:3-14 Mark 6:14-29

Reading: 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 Mark 6:1-13

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Sunday, June 23, 2024 Readings: 1 Samuel 17:32-49 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 Mark 4:35-41

Sunday, June 16, 2024 Resources: Eugene H. Peterson, First and Second Samuel (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1999). N.T. Wright,  Paul for Everyone: 2 Corinthians (London: SPCK, 2003, 2004). John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians 11:3. Rowan Williams, Meeting God in Mark: Reflections for the Season of Lent, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox). Hilary of Poiti...

Sunday, June 2, 2024 Readings: 1 Samuel 3:1-10 2 Corinthians 4:5-12 Mark 2:23-3:6

Sunday, May 26, 2024 Trinity Sunday

Sunday, May 19, 2024 Resources: Willie James Jennings, Acts: A Theological Commentary on the Bible (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2017). Rowan Williams, “Pentecost Eucharist at St Gregory’s Tredington,” Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury, May 27, 2012, http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/2513/pentecost-eucharist-at-st-gregorys-tredington.html . Wright, Romans for...

Sunday, May 12, 2024 Resources: N.T. Wright, Acts for Everyone: Part 1, Chapters 1-12 (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008). Willie James Jennings, Acts (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2017). Ben Witherington III, The Acts of the Apostles: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997). D. Moody Smith, First, Second, and Third John (Louisville: John Knox Press, 1991) Rodolfo...

Sunday, May 5, 2024 Resources: Willie James Jennings, Acts (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2017). Tom Wright, The Early Christian Letters for Everyone: James, Peter, Judah, and John (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002). Frederick Dale Bruner, The Gospel of John (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012). Wright, John for Everyone: Part One (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002). Scot McKnight, Jes...

Sunday, April 28, 2024 Resources: Buzz Aldrin, “Communion in Space,” Guideposts, October 1970, https://web.archive.org/web/20100416070924/http://www.ericmetaxas.com/writing/essays/buzz-aldrin-guideposts-article-full-text/ . Tom Wright, Acts for Everyone (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008). Willie James Jennings, Acts (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2017). Wright, The Early Christian Lett...

Sunday, April 21, 2024 Resources: “Sheep Gets Stuck Jumps Back in Trench,” YouTube, 2022, Accessed on February 29, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Wc8vluyp0 . Tom Wright, Acts for Everyone (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008). Willie James Jennings, Acts (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2017). “Seven Arrested While Serving Food to the Homeless in Tampa,” Tampa Baby Times,  htt...

Sunday, April 14, 2024 Resources: Tom Wright, Acts for Everyone (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008). Bede, “On 1 John.” Eugene H. Peterson, As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Conversation on the Ways of God Formed by the Words of God, Audiobook, (New York: Penguin Random House, 2017). C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (New York: Macmillan, 1946). Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditations on the Cross (Louisvil...

Sunday, April 7, 2024 Resources: Willie James Jennings, Acts (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2017). Tom Wright, Acts for Everyone, (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008). Wright,  Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church,  (New York: HarperCollins, 2008). Lewis B. Smedes, Forgive and Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don’t Deserve, (San Fran...

Sunday, March 31, 2024 Resources: Richard Hays, First Corinthians (Louisville: 2011). Gordon Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians, Revised Edition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014). Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited (Grand Rapids:Zondervan, 2011). Tom Wright, Mark for Everyone (Louisville: John Knox, 2001). Rowan Williams, Meeting God in Mark: Reflections for...

Sunday, March 24, 2024 N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is, (Downers Grove: IVP, 1999), 34-53. Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan, The Last Week: A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem, (New York: HarperCollins, 2006). Esau McCaulley, Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal , (Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2022).  Wright, Mark for...

Sunday, March 17, 2024 Resources: Walter Brueggemann, A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998). Christopher J.H. Wright, To the Cross: Proclaiming the Gospel from the Upper Room to Calvary (Downers Grove: Intervarsity, 2017). Chris E.W. Green, Being Transfigured: Lenten Homilies (Abbotsford, BC: St. Macrina, 2023). Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (New York...