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Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday June 28, 2026
By Pastor Albert Starr Jr. on June 25, 2026These three words, " Receive, Give, Reward" can together sound very transactional. They can put us in mind deals and negotiations and bargaining towards profit, the standard stuff of the marketplace. We need to notice that Jesus uses these words in ways that call us more toward relationships of integrity
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Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
on June 19, 2026Jesus is preparing disciples for serving in the role of apostles. He is teaching them about the distinct difference between being students / followers, to becoming the ones sent out to carry out a particular work, a specific assignment among a specific group of people. The message the disciples are
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Third Sunday of Pentecost, June 14, 2026
By Pastor Albert Starr Jr. on June 11, 2026The social, religious, and even political climate Jesus was experiencing was a time of tremendous change. Lots of things were shifting, being challenged and changing. It seems that everywhere he went Jesus was teaching and touching lives not only in the streets and in people's homes, but in the synagogues
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Second Sunday of Pentecost, June 7, 2026
By Pastor Albert Starr Jr. on June 4, 2026Instead of separating himself from “tax collectors and sinners” like many religious leaders have, Jesus comes to dinner, sharing a meal but even more we notice that Jesus has been invited into Matthew’s home, into Matthew’s life and soon others are both invited and welcomed to come meet Jesus. “I