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Belief in God in a Chaotic World
2ND SUNDAY OF EASTER. April 12, 2026 Year A, John 20: 19-31 Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, NLR Michael Mitchell, Lay Assistant Life for early followers of Jesus was often chaotic and dangerous. It wasn’t just a matter of believing and practicing a new religion. Repeatedly we are told the disciples hid in locked rooms to avoid the Jewish religious authorities. As Jesus had been killed, they expected to be hunted down and executed as well. When the Christian message began leaving Jerusalem out into the Roman world, early followers were persecuted in the Synagogues. And in the wider world, Rome was the authority on religious practice and expected its populations to follow the state religious beliefs. To follow Jesus and live the life he...
Weekly Services
Sunday Morning Worship:
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM: Worship Service (No Music) Streamed on YouTube
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Choir Call
10:30 AM: Children’s Chapel
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Worship Service (Choir) Streamed on YouTube
Wednesday Healing Prayer:
12:00 PM Rite II with anointing for the sick
Thursday Evening Prayer:
5:00 PM w/ Mark Holst (on FB)
Recent Sermons
Jerusalem, Jerusalem…
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings… At our staff meeting last Tuesday I announced that unlike my usual habit I...
Wilderness of Lent: Tempted Just Like Us but Without Sinning
Lent 1C’25 9 March 2025 Psalm 91; Luke 4.1-13 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone <+> For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested...
Ash Wednesday C’25
Ash Wednesday C’25 5 March 2025 Joel 2.1-2,12-17; Ps103 Mt.6.1-6,16-21 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone <+> You have made us for yourself, o Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You; in the Name of the...
Ultimate Mountaintop Experience: Transfiguration
Last Epiphany C’25 (Transfiguration) 2 March 2025 Luke 9.28-43 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone <+> Proclaim the greatness of the Lord our God and worship him upon his holy hill: In the Name of the Father, and of the...
The Class of 2031
Put your trust in the Lord and do good… Take delight in the Lord, And he shall give you your heart’s desire… Recently several of us from St. Luke’s attended our church’s annual convention. It was held at the Episcopal School in Little Rock in the gym. Sitting there...
Ignatian Prayer
Epiphany 5C’25 Ignatian Prayer 9 February 2025 Luke 5.1-11 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas Today I’m going to try something a little different with my sermon. I am borrowing a lot of my material today from Monika Manser, a spiritual writer from...
Candlemas
2 February 2025 {Candlemas} Mal.3.1-4, Ps.84, Heb.2.14-18, Luke 2.22-40 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone Lord, you now have set your servant free to go in peace as you have promised; for these eyes of mine have seen the...
Homesick for Community
Epiphany 3C’25 “Homesick for Community” 26 January 2025 (Micah 6.8); I Cor.12.12-31a St. Luke’s Episcopal Church North Little Rock, Arkansas The Rev. Carey Stone <+> “He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of...
Expect a Miracle
Recently I visited with an old friend. We had not talked together for several years. We were very much enjoying our conversation – recalling old friends – remembering some experiences…when my friend commented, ‘Why is that when one is having once in a lifetime...