Seventh Sunday after Pentecost — July 12, 2026
Jacob and Esau’s rivalry reveals a God who works through unlikely people, overturns expectations, and calls us to trust grace over human ideas of righteousness, writes Aaron Pratt Shepherd.
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Order of worship — July 12, 2026
You are welcome to use this liturgy in your online worship services and distribute it to your congregation.
Fourth Sunday of Easter — April 26, 2026
On Good Shepherd Sunday, familiar texts invite a deeper reading — revealing Christ’s abundant life not as exclusion, but as a call to holistic, imaginative faith, writes Aaron Pratt Shepherd.
Order of worship — April 26, 2026
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Still born
Aaron Pratt Shephard writes that even when a child’s life seems to end before it begins, faith in Christ’s resurrection offers hope that every life will yet be born into eternal fullness.
Evangelism in an Age of Despair: Hope Beyond the Failed Promise of Happiness
Aaron Pratt Shepherd praises Andrew Root’s "Evangelism in an Age of Despair" as a timely, theologically rich call for the church to reclaim evangelism.