Ash Wednesday Sermon

Ash Wednesday 14 February 2024 II Cor. 5.20b-6.10; Mt.6 1-6,16-21 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone <+> Our days are like the grass; we flourish like a flower of the field; When the wind goes over it, it is gone,...

The Light of His Countenance

Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. Led them up a high mountain apart… Mountains, high places have always seemed special places, even holy places. Ireland has such a place, a holy mountain. Several years...

Candlemas-Live Life On Purpose

Epiphany 5B/Candlemas’24 4 February 2024 Mark 1.29-39 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone <+> “In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed;” In the Name of...

2023: Bragging on God and St. Luke’s

 Epiphany 5B’24 28 January 2024 I Cor. 8.1-13; Mk.1.21-28 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock. Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone <+> All Knowing, All Powerful, and All Loving God, you have promised to be in our midst wherever two or three are gathered...

The Sign of Jonah

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city and call out against it, “for their evil has come up before me. But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to...

Not a Label, but a Face and a Name

 Epiphany 2B’24 14 January 2024 I Sam 3.1-10; Ps. 139; Jn.1.43-51 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone <+> Glory to God whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine: Glory to him from...