United Church of Pittsford

Luke 10:38-42
(Contemporary English Version)

The word was spreading like wildfire throughout the Galilee about Jesus of Nazareth. People were curious about what they were hearing, and anxious to encounter this rapidly burgeoning local legend.

Acts 9:10-19 (The Message)

There is an ancient Chinese legend that tells of a small group of elderly, extremely cultured, aristocratic gentlemen who met regularly to exchange bits of wisdom and sip exquisite concoctions of exotic tea. They took turns hosting the gatherings and each gentleman acquired what he believed to be the very finest and most costly varieties of tea and then, created his own exotic blend, which he hoped would arouse the admiration of his guests.

Proverbs 31:10 and 26-31
Proverbs 6:20-22

Today is Mother’s Day. A day that I consider to be a very important and significant American holiday, conceived and established to remember, honor, praise, and appreciate the unique and indispensable contributions a good and faithful mother, not only provides for her family but for our culture, and society as a whole. As the wisdom of Proverbs implies a good and faithful woman is not only a man’s greatest treasure, but a stable societies greatest treasure, as well.

Colossians 3:12-14

Bob and Nancy had been married for 12 years. By all appearances, things were going very well in their lives. Bob had a good job, their kids were happy and healthy, they lived in a nice neighborhood, and had a number of good, trusted, and treasured friends. However, in spite of all this, Nancy was bored with her life of leisure, and quite frankly, bored with her marriage. So, she got a part-time job, as a way to add some new found purpose and excitement in her life. While on the job she met and became friends with one of her work-mates. Their friendship slowly became more and more intimate, exciting, stimulating, and rewarding and before long, physical!

Mark 11:1-10

It was Passover and Jews from all over Palestine and nearly every other corner of the Roman Empire, where making pilgrimage to the Holy City.

They came to celebrate freedom, independence, liberation; for the Passover holiday was a week-long ritual remembrance of the Exodus experience, of the deliverance of the Hebrew people from their captivity in Egypt.