Mothers – You are Powerful!

Easter 6B’21 (Mother’s Day) 9 May 2021 I Jn. 5.1-6; Jn.15.9-17 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone Almighty God, Father and Mother of us all, you watch over us as a loving parent: Grant us Wisdom and the courage to follow the...

On the Road to Gaza

Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 8:26-40, I John 4:7-7-21; John 15:1-8; Psalm 22:24-30 In January of 2007 I was part of a Methodist tour to the Holy Land. On one of our last days there we visited the church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Oddly enough, we began our...

Christ – The Good Shepherd

Easter 4B’21 25 April 2021 John 10.11-18 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone O God, whose Son Jesus is the good shepherd of your people: Grant that when we hear his voice, we may know him who calls us each by name, and follow...

The Resurrection Keeps Happening

Easter 3B’21 18 April 2021 I John 3.1-7 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone “Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for...

2020: A Year of Covid in Review

Lent 5B’21 21 March 2021 Hebrews 5.5-10 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone Although he [Jesus] was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. In the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit. Amen. –...

Faith

March 14, 2021 – 4th Sunday of Lent – Faith …God who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive with Christ…For by grace we have been saved through faith, and this is not our own doing,...