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All Saints Day ›
Luke 6:20-31
Ephesians 1:11-23
Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18
Psalm 149
Proper 26 | OT 31 | Pentecost 21 ›
Luke 19:1-10
2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12
Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4
Isaiah 1:10-18
Psalm 119:137-144
Psalm 32:1-7

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  • The Immediate Word

    All Saints Day - C
    Thomas Willadsen
    Nazish Naseem
    Dean Feldmeyer
    Mary Austin
    Katy Stenta
    George Reed
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  • CSSPlus

    All Saints Day - C
    John Jamison
    Object: You will need one or more pictures of people recognized as saints. You may find some pictures by Googling “public domain pictures of saints” and printing images from the results.

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    Hello, everyone! (Let them respond.) Are you ready for our story today? (Let them respond.) Great! But, before I tell you the story, I want to ask...

  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    All Saints Day - C
    Wayne Brouwer
    Fred Craddock tells of a vacation encounter in the Smokey Mountains of eastern Tennessee years ago that moved him deeply. He and his wife took supper one evening in a place called the Black Bear Inn. One side of the building was all glass, open to a magnificent mountain view. Glad to be alone, the Craddocks were a bit annoyed when an elderly man ambled over and struck up a nosey conversation: “...

  • StoryShare

    All Saints Day - C
    Frank Ramirez
    Call them the good old days. Call it the Golden Age. It’s not unusual for people to look back in their youth, or to the youth of their country, as somehow more perfect, honorable, or simpler. C.S. Lewis was always skeptical about claims that chocolate was better in one’s youth. It wasn’t better. Our taste buds were stronger and more receptive.

    It’s easy to make fun of that belief....

  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    All Saints Day - C
    Mark Ellingsen
    Bill Thomas
    Frank Ramirez
    Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18 and Psalm 149
    Daniel might well be the last book written in the Hebrew scriptures. Indeed, it is written so late, in the second half of the second century before Jesus, that Daniel 2:4b-7:28 is written in Aramaic, the lingua franca of that portion of the world so that everyone, Jews and Gentiles alike, could hear the message. Most of the first half of...

  • The Village Shepherd

    All Saints Day - C
    Janice B. Scott
    The Roman Catholic Church's canonisation of Edith Stein some years ago, fuelled considerable controversy. Edith Stein was born and bred into a Jewish family, becoming a Roman Catholic Christian at the age of 31. She was also a leading German intellectual in the early thirties, during the run-up to World War 2, although she gave up that career in order to become a Carmelite nun. But she...

  • SermonStudio

    All Saints Day - C
    Carlos Wilton
    Theme For The Day
    The world offers many blessings, but none of these things will save us: only the blessing of God in Jesus Christ can do that.

    Old Testament Lesson
    Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18
    Daniel's Apocalyptic Dream
    The omission of the material from the middle of this divided passage spares the reader some of the troubling and hard-to-interpret...

  • SermonStudio

    All Saints Day - C
    Scott A. Bryte
    Then he looked up at his disciples and said: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your...

  • SermonStudio

    All Saints Day - C
    Mark Ellingson
    This is a story written for people who had been or were about to be persecuted, if not enslaved. (The book of Daniel was probably written in the mid-second century B.C. during a period of Seleucid [Syrian] domination in Palestine.) It tells them and us how their ancestors had once faced a similar slavery under the oppression of the Babylonians centuries earlier. The implication was that if these...

  • The Immediate Word

    Proper 26 | Ordinary Time 31 - C
    Thomas Willadsen
    Nazish Naseem
    Dean Feldmeyer
    Mary Austin
    Katy Stenta
    George Reed
    For November 2, 2025:

  • CSSPlus

    Proper 26 | Ordinary Time 31 - C
    John Jamison
    Object: This message involves roleplay. You will need a chair for Zach to stand on, unless it is ok for him to stand on a front pew. For the best fun, you will also want to have an adult volunteer play the role of Jesus and walk in when it is time. Whether he is in costume is up to you.

    * * *

    Hello, everyone! (Let them respond.) Are you ready for...

  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Proper 26 | Ordinary Time 31 - C
    Mark Ellingsen
    Bill Thomas
    Frank Ramirez
    Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4 and Psalm 119:137-144
    Walter Elwell in the Shaw Pocket Bible Handbook notes of righteousness that it is, “Right standing, specifically before God. Among the Greeks, righteousness was an ethical virtue. Among the Hebrews it was a legal concept; the righteous man was the one who got the verdict of acceptability when tried at the...

  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Proper 26 | Ordinary Time 31 - C
    Frank Ramirez
    One of the features of synagogue worship is the Shema. The Hebrew word is “Hear!” and is the opening for Deuteronomy 6:4-5, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” God’s people are commanded to “hear” these words. They come from the Lord. And these three scriptures...

  • StoryShare

    Proper 26 | Ordinary Time 31 - C
    John E. Sumwalt
    Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, but your commandments are my delight. Your statutes are always righteous; give me understanding that I may live. (vv. 143-144)

    When I was an associate pastor in Janesville, Wisconsin one of my responsibilities was to give a lecture on spirituality once a month at a drug treatment facility. The students who attended were persons who had...

  • The Village Shepherd

    Proper 26 | Ordinary Time 31 - C
    Janice B. Scott
    Call to Worship:

    Jesus didn't reject anyone, even those who were liars and cheats. By a simple act of friendship Jesus turned Zaccheus' life around. In our worship today let us consider friendship and all that it means.


    Invitation to Confession:

    Jesus, there are some people I don't like.
    Lord, have mercy.
    Jesus, there...

  • SermonStudio

    Proper 26 | Ordinary Time 31 - C
    Perry H. Biddle, Jr.
    Comments on the Lessons

    The Haggai reading gives good eschatological material as we approach the end of the liturgical year. It has the same theme as the Gospel, that the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost. Haggai speaks of the new temple which will replace the one in ruins and will have even greater splendor. The Exodus passage has the theme of the theophany which was...

  • SermonStudio

    Proper 26 | Ordinary Time 31 - C
    John W. Clarke
    This chapter of Luke brings us ever closer to the end of Jesus' public ministry. Jesus enters Jericho, just fifteen miles or so from the holy city of Jerusalem. It is here that Jesus transforms the life of Zacchaeus, the tax collector. This is one of the few stories that is peculiar to Luke and is a wonderful human-interest story. The fact that Zacchaeus is willing to climb a tree to see Jesus is...

  • SermonStudio

    Proper 26 | Ordinary Time 31 - C
    Gary L. Carver
    Ulysses S. Grant fought many significant battles as commander of the Union forces in the War Between the States. He also served as President of the United States where he probably engaged in as many battles as he did while he was a general. Toward the end of his life he fought his toughest battle -- with cancer and death.

    It was during the last encounter that one of his former...

  • SermonStudio

    Proper 26 | Ordinary Time 31 - C
    Richard E. Gribble, CSC
    There is an apocryphal story told that after completing his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, the famous Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci went to a nearby tavern to celebrate the event with his friends. While in conversation and sipping a little of the local wine, Leonardo noticed that many in the tavern were making sport of an ugly fool who made his living going from tavern to tavern,...

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