The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 21), Year B. Track I John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my … Continue reading “Whoever is not against us is for us”

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 19), Year B. Track I Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” He … Continue reading “…who do you say I am?”

The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 17), Year B. Track I When the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless … Continue reading Children’s Sermon: “Wash me Lord, and Cleanse me of my Sin.”

The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 15), Year B. Track I David slept with his ancestors, and was buried in the city of David. The time that David reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David; … Continue reading “Grant us Wisdom, Grant us Courage, for the Facing of These Days”

The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 13), Year B. Track I The next day, when the people who remained after the feeding of the five thousand saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.When they found him on the other side … Continue reading “I am the Bread of Life”