Fourth Sunday After Epiphany, Year A in 2020: Epistle Passage – Hear and Understand!
“For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are...
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Carole Boshart
I am a ponderer by nature, and freely mix the spiritual and the pragmatic but always guided by the wisdom of the Spirit as sent by the Lord God and communicated through scripture. I am not sure how to describe my spiritual orientation. Part Anabaptist - that is where my roots are. But I have journeyed a long way from the church of my childhood. My faith life is a potpourri of most Christian denominations, with a little Judaism thrown in. My passion is to reach out to people where they are, wherever they are, and support them in their life and in this world, while readying them for the life and world to come.
Fourth Sunday After Epiphany, Year A in 2020: Old Testament Passage – Hear and Come!
“Hear what the LORD says: Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your...
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Third Sunday After Epiphany, Year A in 2020: Psalm Passage – May the Light of the Divine bring comfort
“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life;...
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Third Sunday After Epiphany, Year A in 2020: Gospel Passage – The Coming of the Light of the Divine, and how we respond
“Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. He left Nazareth and...
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Third Sunday After Epiphany, Year A in 2020: Epistle Passage – Who brings or bestows the Light of the Divine?
“Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you...
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Third Sunday After Epiphany, Year A in 2020: Old Testament Passage – The Coming of the Light of the Divine
“But there will be no gloom for those who were in anguish. In the former time he brought into...
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Second Sunday After Epiphany, Year A in 2020: Psalm Passage – Preacher and Seeker talk about the actions of the Divine who sent the Messiah
Seeker: “I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry.” Preacher: The Lord...
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Second Sunday After Epiphany, Year A in 2020: Gospel Passage – Knowing who the Messiah is and following him
“The next day he [John] saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “Here is the Lamb of God...
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Second Sunday After Epiphany, Year A in 2020: Epistle Passage – Knowing who the Messiah and being a faithful servant
[From] “Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother...
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Second Sunday After Epiphany, Year A in 2020: Old Testament Passage – Knowing who the Messiah is and what the Sent Servant is all about
“Listen to me, O coastlands, pay attention, you peoples from far away! The LORD called me before I...
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Baptism of the Lord, Year A in 2020: Psalm Passage – The Divine above and beyond the “nut shell”
Preacher: “Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.”...
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Baptism of the Lord, Year A in 2020: Gospel Passage – A Divine Blessing in a nut shell
“Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. John would have...
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Baptism of the Lord, Year A in 2020: Epistle Passage – The message in a nut shell
“Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in...
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Baptism of the Lord, Year A in 2020: Old Testament Passage – The starting point, as prophesied
“Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon...
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Epiphany, Year A in 2020: Gospel, Epistle & Old Testament Passage – Via Another Road
This day, January 6th, is the Day of Epiphany and when we recognize and celebrate that Jesus was...
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Second Sunday After Christmas 2019, Year A in 2020: The Substituted Psalm Passage – Wisdom Again
For reasons that seemed more clear at the beginning of the week, I decided instead of the Psalm...
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