Irreverently Reverend

  Fifth Sunday of Easter So what are we going to say? Should we continue sinning so grace will multiply?  2  Absolutely not! All of us died to sin. How can we still live in it?  3  Or don’t you know that all who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  4  Therefore, we were buried together with him through baptism into his death , so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too can walk in newness of life.  5  If we were united together in a death like his, we will also be united together in a resurrection like his.  6  This is what we know: the person that we used to be was crucified with him in order to get rid of the corpse that had been controlled by sin. That way we wouldn’t be slaves to sin anymore,  7  because a person who has died has been freed from sin’s power.  8  But if we died with Christ, we have faith that we will also live with him....

  Ordinary Time Christ is just like the human body—a body is a unit and has many parts; and all the parts of the body are one body, even though there are many.   13  We were all baptized by one Spirit into one body, whether Jew or Greek, or slave or free, and we all were given one Spirit to drink.  14  Certainly the body isn’t one part but many.  15  If the foot says, “I’m not part of the body because I’m not a hand,” does that mean it’s not part of the body?  16  If the ear says, “I’m not part of the body because I’m not an eye,” does that mean it’s not part of the body?  17  If the whole body were an eye, what would happen to the hearing? And if the whole body were an ear, what would happen to the sense of smell?  18  But as it is, God has placed each one of the parts in the body just like he wanted.  19  If all were one and the same body part, what would happen to the body?  20  But as it is, there a...

  Third Sunday after Epiphany For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.  13  For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 14  Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many.  15  If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.  16  And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.  17  If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?  18  But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.  19  If all were a single member, where would the body be?  20...

  Second Sunday after Epiphany Brothers and sisters, I don’t want you to be ignorant about spiritual gifts.  2  You know that when you were Gentiles you were often misled by false gods that can’t even speak.  3  So I want to make it clear to you that no one says, “Jesus is cursed!” when speaking by God’s Spirit, and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.  4  There are different spiritual gifts but the same Spirit;  5  and there are different ministries and the same Lord;  6  and there are different activities but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.   7  A demonstration of the Spirit is given to each person for the common good.  8  A word of wisdom is given by the Spirit to one person, a word of knowledge to another according to the same Spirit,  9  faith to still another by the same Spirit, gifts of healing to another in the one Spirit,  10  performance of m...