Advent: Intentional Darkness

Advent 1C’182 December 2018Luke 21.25-36St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me, and the light around me turn to night,” darkness is not dark to thee, O Lord; the night is as bright as...

Showing Up

Proper 28B’1818 November 2018Hebrews 10.11-14 (15-18) 19-25 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, ArkansasThe Rev. Carey Stone I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord. In the Name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy...

Remember 3

Our hope is in our God, Who made Heaven and Earth, the seas, and all that in them; Who keeps his promise for ever; Who gives justice to the oppressed. The extraordinary thing about our Scripture readings today is how two “ordinary” people, two women are singled out....

Choices

This day begins as any other day. Hot, dusty, the smell of the animals moving on the road, stirring up the dust, the cursing of drivers shouting, the smells of cooking, the neighbors arguing as usual – yet there is something different about this day. I hear talk about...

A Hope For A Family

Twenty-First Sunday of Pentecost – 14 October 2018 As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man…asked him, “…what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “You know the commandments, “Jesus replied….”Teacher; I have kept all these since my youth.” “Jesus, looking at him,...

Healing is What We All Need

Proper 21B’1830 September 2018James 5.13‐20; Mk. 9.38‐50 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone Almighty God, you made a world that contains both beauty and brokenness: Grant us spiritual power and compassionate hearts that we may...