Mark 1: 14-20

Sisters & brothers, grace to you & peace from the God of hope, the Christ who calls, and the holy, life-giving & life-disrupting Spirit. Amen.

My grandfather occasionally enjoyed fishing and every now-and-then would take me down to the Vermillion River with his old bamboo fishing pole on hot and humid mid-summer South Dakota afternoons.  Once we got down to the river, he would find us a nice cool place under a shade tree, unfold the tattered lawn chair he always used, turn a bucket upside down for his footstool, pull his floppy straw hat down over his eyes and say, “I sure hope they don’t bite.”

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John 1:1-14

Sisters & brothers, grace to you and peace from God the Word, from Christ the Word Made Flesh, and from the Spirit, whose sets the Word to music.  Amen.

“Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. When you read you begin with A-B-C. When you sing you begin with Do-Re-Mi.”

We start at the very beginning this morning.

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