Category - Preaching Resources

Assigned Texts: Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 James 1:17-27 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 A Matter of the Heart Among other things, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends frequent hand washing to help reduce the chance for the...

Assigned Texts: Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18 Ephesians 6:10-20 John 6:51-58 During my seminary years, I did an internship at a nursing home, visiting with residents who otherwise had little or no family coming to visit with them on a...

Assigned Texts: Proverbs 6:1-6 Ephesians 5:15-20 John 6:51-58 Are you full yet? We have been talking bread for 5 weeks now since Jesus fed the 5,000 on the green grass next to the Sea of Galilee. The author of John’s Gospel...

Assigned Scripture Texts: I Kings 19:4-8 Ephesians 5:15-20 John 6:35, 41-51 We have been talking “Manna” for several weeks now, and Jesus is at it again.  “I am the bread of life,” Jesus says.  Throughout...

Assigned Texts: Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15 Ephesians 4:12-16 John 6:23-35 For a middle-school science research project, my son decided that he would test the rates of mold formation on sliced white bread under different conditions to...

Assigned Texts: 2 Kings 4:42-44 Ephesians 3:14-21 John 6:1-21 Imagine that a congregation’s Board of Trustees has just received word that the lawn service that rolls in on Thursday mornings to cut the grass each week has...

Assigned Lessons: Jeremiah 23:1-6 Psalm 23 Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 Let’s set the scene in our Gospel Lesson. Jesus has been traveling around the Galilean countryside. He has healed many at Peter’s home, a man with an...

Scripture Texts: Amos 7:7-15 Ephesians 1:3-14 Mark 6:14-29 Imagine the scene: It’s Herod’s Birthday.  Now, this is not the same Herod as the one who tried to have Jesus killed as an infant; This is his son, Herod Antipas, one of...

Assigned Scripture Texts: Ezekiel 2:1-5 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 Mark 6:1-13 The Apostle Paul writes: But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more...

Assigned texts: Lamentations 3:22-33 2 Corinthians 8:7-15 Mark 5:21-43 In today’s text from Mark’s Gospel, Jesus is in a healing mode. Here, the stories of two healings are meshed together beautifully. They tell us a lot about...