Month: June 2024

By Rev. Lara MacGregor Isaiah 40:1-11 & Mark 1:1-8 Watch on YouTube Isaiah 40:1-11 NIV Comfort for God’s People 40 Comfort, comfort my people,    says your God.2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,    and proclaim to herthat her hard service has been completed,    that her sin has been paid for,that she has received from the Lord’s hand    double for all her sins. 3 A voice of one calling:“In the ...

Mark 4:26 NLT Watch on YouTube [1] Do you know Ramona?  Ramona is a little girl who is the lead character inthe children’s book series by Beverly Cleary.  I think of Ramona whenever I say something that sounds like something else because of her misunderstanding in the book Ramona the Pest. Ramona thinks she’s mastered the ...

Luke 19:1-10NLT Watch on YouTube Today we’re talking about justice, a word that can mean different things to different people.  When I was a kid, I thought justice meant this: If you break a rule, there’s going to be a punishment. If you do something mean or bad to your brother, you’re going to have ...

2 Corinthians 4:5-12NRSV Watch on YouTube I like finding funny words.  For example: Cattywampus Cattywampus means askew, awry, not centered or out of balance. Some say that the Wampus cat is "a creature heard whining about camps at night," or "a spiritual green-eyed cat, having occult powers." Cherokee legend says a wampus cat is a ...