Jane Wolfe
Sermons and Bible Studies
Bible Study: Advent 2 (A) – 2022
During Advent, we will be using study prompts and other activities tied to the sermon for the week. Read the sermon aloud and follow-up with spoken responses to the two questions at the end. Find our full sermon compilation for individual, small group, or congregational use, Sermons for Advent and Christmas 2022 at www.sermonsthatwork.org. [RCL] […]
Today’s Lessons Are Important Ones…, Proper 13 (B) – 1997
Today’s lessons are important ones because they give us vivid insights into our relationship with God. In fact, they hold up the whole notion of relationship: Relationship — the elastic dynamic between living creatures in which we are engaged whether we like it or not, whether we choose to honor it or not. And while […]
Today’s Lessons Are Wonderful…, Proper 7 (B) – 1997
Today’s lessons are wonderful — Job, Psalm 107, 2 Corinthians and Mark. They are all about relationship with God — listening to God and responding to God — experiencing God, experiencing the wholeness and fulfillment and gladness that comes from that relationship. Let’s look at Job first. God finally speaks. For page after page, conversation […]
Lots Of Good Shepherd…, Easter 4 (B) – 1997
Lots of Good Shepherd readings this Sunday — Ezekiel, the 23rd Psalm, 1 John — if we can count “children of God” as sheep, and the Gospel according to John. The analogy of God as Shepherd and human beings as sheep is one of the most persistent in scripture, both Old and New Testaments; yet […]
Here We Are at the Fourth…, Advent 4 (A) – 1995
Here we are at the 4th Sunday of Advent, anticipating the first great Holy Day in our new liturgical year. The year itself marks our life in relationship to God, the life into which we were sealed in Baptism. The lessons for today are full of wonderful things to say — not so much about […]
More Great Lessons…, Advent 3 (A) – 1995
More great lessons as we move into the third Sunday of our new liturgical year. The Psalm and Isaiah talk about how wonderful life in the kingdom of God is, life in the presence of God and in the joyful freedom of God’s reign. They are absolutely exuberant: all the enormous wrongs of human existence […]
The Lessons for This Second…, Advent 2 (A) – 1995
The lessons for this second Sunday in Advent are absolutely magnificent in their belief in, understanding of and knowledge about life in the kingdom of God. What do we have here, from the Psalms, through Isaiah, Romans and Matthew? What will it be like? There will be an abundance of food and understanding and wisdom. […]
The Lessons for This First…, Advent 1 (A) – 1995
[RCL]: Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44 The lessons for this first Sunday in Advent are grand; they are big statements we’ve heard so much we forget exactly where they came from: Big stuff. What are we to make of them all; we, who have said goodbye to another liturgical year and hello […]
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