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February 13, 2022 "Faith at the Movies: Groundhog Day" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureMatthew 22:34-40 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,  and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.  “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”  He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all you...

February 6, 2022 "Faith at the Movies: Up" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScripturePsalm 90 Lord, you have been our dwelling place    in all generations.  Before the mountains were brought forth,    or ever you had formed the earth and the world,    from everlasting to everlasting you are God.  You turn ...

January 30, 2022 "Love is..."- Rev. Bri Desotell Scripture1 Corinthians 13:1-13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothin...

January 23, 2022 "Good News" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureLuke 4:14-21 Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country.  He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synago...

January 16, 2022 "A Quiet Miracle" - Dave Gombert ScriptureJohn 2:1-11 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.  Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.  When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”  And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to you and t...

January 9, 2022 "Beloved" - Rev. Briony Desotell ScriptureLuke 3:15-17, 21-22 As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his...

January 2, 2022 "Old Befana" - Rev. Briony Desotell ScriptureMatthew 2:1-12 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem,  asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.”  When King H...

December 26, 2021 "Looking for Jesus"- Rev. Briony Desotell ScriptureLuke 2:31-52 which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,  a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel.” And the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was being said about him.  Then Simeon blessed them and said to his moth...

December 24, 2021 "Strange Tradtions" - Rev. Briony Desotell ScriptureLuke 1:26-35,38  In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,  to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.  And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord...

December 19, 2021 "The Heart that Grew Three Sizes" - Rev. Briony Desotell ScriptureLuke 2:8-20 In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  But the angel said to them, “Do not be afrai...