Curiosity. Faith. Questions.

Pulpit swap with a colleague.

Coffee Hour Worship sermon. AI assist cleaning up extra noise.

I forgot to record the gospel reading. This sermon for an ecumenical service, part of a Season of Creation one of the congregations is doing.

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Lectionary cuts off at v.69. Hear my sermon on this text from 3 years ago (it was better than this one) at: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/5gpAqYfnmMb

Coffee Hour Worship sermon discussion. Big blocks of silence have been edited out, but there are still pieces that weren't caught.

Lectionary John 6.35, 41-51. Next week is coffee hour worship. Be thinking about the deeper relationship.

v. 24 gets read twice because oops

Today we started a 5-week stretch in John 6 (lectionary portions below), a lot on the “Bread of Life” and communion. I encourage you to read the whole chapter sometime this week (or month of August). Help my sermon prep by sharing your thoughts- questions, insights, wonderings, etc.- with me via email, text, old-fashioned phone call, or drop a note my hand Sunday morning. Thanks! -Kate DATE   JOHN...

2 Cor 8:7-15 (or read 8-9)

First Nations Versions: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament

Read 2 Corinthians.

The homework foci: today’s 4:5-12, the treasure of Christ and Christ’s power in our earthly vessels; 4:13-5:1, trusting in resurrection and not despairing in mortality; 5:6-17, living by faith and not by sight, God’s new creation; 6:1-13, Paul’s defense of his ministry, God’s working for our salvation; 8:7-15, honoring the commitment to the Jerusalem collection; 12:2-10, not boasting in one’s own...

Pluto was demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006.

Today's readings: Acts 2:1-21 (Ezekiel 37:1-14) Psalm 104:24-34, 35b Romans 8:22-27 John 15:26-27; 16:4b-14 Cut out most of the conversation from the recording, but there are still bits and pieces, other noise from the room.

Readings: Acts 1:15-17, 21-26; 1 John 5:9-13; John 17:6-19. Playlist: "I Am Not Ashamed" Flamy Grant https://youtu.be/36ZabB5hZcU "I Don't Know How to Love Him" (Mel C as Mary M) https://youtu.be/lw5HdK8_p6w (Tim Minchin as Judas https://youtu.be/NFjDJ1i0CY8?t=96 ) "Judas" Lady Gaga https://youtu.be/wagn8Wrmzuc

1 John 5:1-6 (assigned lectionary); 1 John 4:19-5:5 (what I think it should be)

Read Psalm 23 from a couple of different translations. (BibleGateway.com is a great resource for this.) This sermon was preached/dialogued with my first service Sunday, 21 April 2024. My second service was not recorded, part of "coffee hour worship." Also used as devotions for a conference assembly that afternoon. Each discussion yielded new insights.

Mark 16(.1-8)

Read within are Exodus 24.3-8, Mark 14.22-25

Holy Week reading of the Passion narrative according to Mark.

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Numbers 21:4-9. I used ChatGPT to write part of this like it was for a Jewish audience because the scriptures of Moses' time stand on their own. They don't need Jesus-fying. If there are any Jewish listeners, please let me know how I and the AI did.

Exodus 20:1-17