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Stubborn Hope: "Contagion" | Advent 2024 | December 22, 2024

Scripture Reading: Luke 1:46b-55(CEB)
Proclaiming: Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker 

Stubborn Hope: Interrupting Cows (Advent 2024) December 15th, 2024

Today's Scriupture Reading: Zephaniah 3:14-20(CEB)
 
Proclaiming: Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker 

Stubborn Hope | Advent 2024 December 8th, 2024

Sunday's Scripture Reading: Luke 1:68-79
 
Proclaiming Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker 

Stubborn Hope / Advent 2024 / December 1st, 2024

Scripture Reading: Luke 21:25-36
 
Proclaiming: Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker

"What about the Widows?" (11.10.24) || Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker, Proclaiming

Scripture Reading Mark 12:38-44 (NRSVUE), Lectionary:
 
Mark 12:38-44
A widow's generosity
12:38As he taught, he said, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces
12:39and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets!
12:40They devour widows' houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."
12:41He sat down opposite the treasury and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums.
12:42A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny.
12:43Then he called his disciples and said to them, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury.
12:44For all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on."
 
Proclaimed by Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker 

Commitment Sunday || Mark 10:46-52 || October 27th, 2024

Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker, Proclaiming
 
46 They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. 47 When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” 48 Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” 49 Jesus stood still and said, “Call him here.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart; get up, he is calling you.” 50 So throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. 51 Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “My teacher,[a] let me see again.” 52 Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith has made you well.” Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the way.

Vision Sunday || John 1 || Oct 20th, 2024

Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker, Proclaiming
John 1:1-18
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 came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life,[a] and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. 9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.[b]
10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own,[c] and his own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son,[d] full of grace and truth. 15 (John testified to him and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’ ”) 16 From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.[e] 17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, himself God, who[f] is close to the Father’s heart,[g] who has made him known.

Dreaming Sunday || Acts 2:14-21|| October 13th 2024

Proclaiming Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker 
Acts 2:14-21
14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, “Fellow Jews[a] and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. 15 Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. 16 No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
17 ‘In the last days it will be, God declares,that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh,    and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,and your young men shall see visions,    and your old men shall dream dreams.18 Even upon my slaves, both men and women,    in those days I will pour out my Spirit,        and they shall prophesy.19 And I will show portents in the heaven above    and signs on the earth below,        blood, and fire, and smoky mist.20 The sun shall be turned to darkness    and the moon to blood,        before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day.21 Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

World Communion Sunday: October 6th, 2024

Isaiah 43:19 (NRSVUE) 
 
Guest Proclaiming: Rev. Ellen Sechrest 

GROW: Cultivating a Life of Faith. Blossoms: Beauty Regenerates Life || Mark 9:30-37 || September 22nd, 2024

Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker, Proclaiming
 
30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it, 31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” 32 But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.
Who Is the Greatest?33 Then they came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” 34 But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest. 35 He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.” 36 Then he took a little child and put it among them, and taking it in his arms he said to them, 37 “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”