Church in the Ears

April 19, 2026 Missionary Guest Speaker The Rev. Dana Craft–Missonary to Guatemala Download Luke 5:27-32 (ESV) 27  After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” 28  And leaving everything, he rose and followed him. 29  And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors...

April 12, 2026 Unchanging Hope (Easter II) The Rev. Scott Bailey Download 1 Peter 1:3-9 (ESV) 3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4  to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5  ...

April 5, 2026 Matters of First Importance (Easter Sunday) The Rev. Scott Bailey Download 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 (ESV) 1  Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2  and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3  For I delivered to you as of first importan...

April 4, 2026 Promises We Can Trust (The Great Vigil of Easter) The Rev. Scott Bailey Download Matthew 28:1-10 (ESV) 1  Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. 2  And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 &...

April 2, 2026 Maundy Thursday Meditation The Rev. Scott Bailey Download John 13:1-15 (ESV) 1  Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2  During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betr...

March 29, 2026 Palm Sunday Expectations The Rev. Maryanna Stumbaugh Download Matthew 21:1-11; 26:36-27:54 (ESV) 1  Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2  saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 &n...

March 22, 2026 Eternal Hope and Godly Grief (Lent V) The Rev. Scott Bailey Download John 11:18-44 (ESV) 18  Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off, 19  and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. 20  So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house. 21  Martha said to...

March 15, 2026 Lessons on Understanding, Healing, and Faith The Rev. Scott Bailey Download John 9:1-26; 29-41 (ESV) 1  As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2  And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3  Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in...

March 8, 2026 Grace Greater Than All Our Sin The Rev. Scott Bailey Download John 4:1-26; 39-42 (ESV) 1  Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2  (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3  he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4  And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 &nbs...

March 1, 2026 The Spirit is Like the Wind The Rev. Maryanna Stumbaugh Download John 3:1-16 (ESV) 1  Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2  This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” 3  Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly,...

February 22, 2026 Temptation and Transformation (Lent I) The Rev. Scott Bailey Download Matthew 4:1-11 (ESV) 1  Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2  And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3  And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 &nbs...

February 18, 2026 Ash Wednesday The Rev. Scott Bailey Download Joel 2:12-17 (ESV) 12  “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; 13   and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaste...

February 15, 2026 Christ's Transfiguration and True Transformation The Rev. Scott Bailey Download Philippians 3:1-11 (ESV) 1  Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you. 2  Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. 3  For we are the circumcision, who worship by...

February 8, 2026 World Missions Sunday-Guest Preacher The Rev. Katie Hamlin Download Matthew 9:35-38 (ESV) 35 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a...

January 18, 2026 Made in God's Image (Life Sunday) The Rev. Scott Bailey Download Genesis 1:26-31 (ESV) 26  Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27  So God created man in h...

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January 4, 2026 What is God Doing? – Pondering and Following (Christmas II) The Rev. Scott Bailey Download Luke 2:41-52 (ESV) 41  Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. 42  And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. 43  And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His pare...

December 25, 2025 Christmas Day The Rev. Valarie Whitcomb Download John 1:1-18 (ESV) 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 were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4  In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5  The light shines in t...

December 24, 2025 Bethlehem—God's Kind of Place The Rev. Scott Bailey Download Luke 2:1-20 (ESV) 1  In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2  This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3  And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4  And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of...

December 21, 2025 The Virgin Birth—Why Does It Matter? The Rev. Scott Bailey Download Matthew 1:18-23 (ESV) 18  Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19  And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to di...

December 14, 2025 The Greatest Gift The Rev. Greg Downes Download John 1:1-18 (ESV) 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 were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4  In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5  The light shines in th...

December 7, 2025 Sharing Our Faith The Rev. Greg Downes Download Romans 15:1-13 (ESV) 1  We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2  Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. 3  For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.” 4 &nb...

November 30, 2025 Christ Will Return—How Then Should We Live? (Advent I) The Rev. Scott Bailey Download Matthew 24:29-44 (ESV) 29  “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30  Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and...

November 27, 2025 Thanksgiving Day The Rev. Scott Bailey Matthew 6:25-34 (ESV) 25  “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26  Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenl...

November 23, 2025 Christ and Extending His Kingdom (Feast of Christ the King) The Rev. Scott Bailey Download Jeremiah 23:1-6 (ESV) 1  “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord. 2  Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you...