Text: Luke 21:25-28 I am so ready for a new year to arrive. I have given serious thought to skipping Advent and even boycotting...

Text: Zechariah 7:1-14 [The words of the prophet Zechariah date to a few years after Jewish exiles in Babylon had returned to a...

Texts: I Thessalonians 5:9-11; II Thessalonians 3:6-13 (After the Thessalonians text is read, a large, dead shrub is set on top of the...

Texts: Mark 12:41-44; The Book of Ruth On this All Saints’ Sunday, we have just read about an unlikely saint, a widow who is now...