Jim McCoy

Twenty-third Sunday After Pentecost Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25 Psalm 78:1-7 Amos 5:18-24 I Thessalonians 4:13-18 Matthew 25:1-13 I am writing this...

Fifth Sunday of Easter Revelation 21:1-6 I have read Revelation 21:1-6 at numerous funerals, and have done so as tenderly...

Fifth Sunday of EasterRevelation 21:1-6 I have read Revelation 21:1-6 at numerous funerals, and have done so as tenderly as...

Sixth Sunday After EpiphanyJeremiah 17:5-10Psalm 1I Corinthians 15:12-20Luke 6:17-26 The blessing of God comes not as power and wealth that...

I Kings 8Psalm 84Ephesians 6:10-20John 6:56-69 I was greatly blessed that Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead trilogy was published during my years...

Trinity SundayIsaiah 6:1-13Psalm 29Romans 8:12-17John 3:1-17 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of...

I Corinthians 1:18-25John 2:13-22 Our willingness to read Scripture and to be read by Scripture is a sign of humility...

First Sunday After Christmas Galatians 4:4-7 In these days following the joyous birth of Christ, we consider the world’s response...

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28 Matthew 14:22-33 Chapters 12-50 of Genesis contain the stories of four generations of ancestors: Abraham/Sarah (chapters 12-24);...

Third Sunday of Easter Acts 2:14a, 36-42 1 Peter 1:17-23 Luke 24:13-35 Years after he had read Rider Haggard’s King...