Monthly Archives: December 2011

                   written and preached by Rev. Natalie Shiras                    November 6, 2011 Matthew 25:1-13 Mark 12:28-34 All Saints’ is the church’s great day of remembrance.  We remember the saints, all of them whose names we can remember, and those whose names … Continue reading →

written and preached by Rev. Natalie Shiras November 13, 2011 Matthew 25:14-30 The parable of the talents is a sobering lesson. Jesus is often about turning things upside down. The last part of the story about the third slave who … Continue reading →

written and preached by Rev. Natalie Shiras December 18, 2011  Luke 1:46-55 In India for the second time this past summer, the number of beggars again astonished me. Beggars coming among the cars through the stalled traffic, beggars lying along … Continue reading →

written and preached by Rev. Natalie Shiras December 24, 2011 We are so familiar with this story of Jesus’ birth yet it is a story we are willing to hear again and again! In fact we must hear it. Christmas … Continue reading →

message written and delivered by Barbara Sims December 11, 2011   John 1:6-8, 19-28 I love the way this gospel reading begins with an ordinary man with an ordinary name. “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John”. … Continue reading →

written and preached by Rev. Natalie Shiras  November 27, 2011 Mark 13:24-27 We come full circle to the beginning of the church year. There are three primary festivals in the church year—Christmas, Easter and Pentecost. Christmas is a festival of … Continue reading →

written and preached by Rev. Natalie Shiras November 20, 2011  Matthew 25:31-46 In this morning’s scripture, the last in the judgment series from the Gospel of Matthew, we read that the people of all the nations are separated to the … Continue reading →

written and preached by Rev. Natalie Shiras December 4, 2011      Mark 1: 1-8 The good news of Mark’s gospel begins not with the birth of Jesus story. It begins with looking back to the story of the prophet, Isaiah, who … Continue reading →