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2025 Advent: First Sunday After Christmas

By Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from 2025 Advent Guide: Lighting the Way Forward, an Advent Guide for Lectionary Year A from the North Carolina Council of Churches. Matthew 2:13-23 Now after they had left, an […]

2025 Advent: First Sunday After Christmas

by Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from 2025 Advent Guide: Lighting the Way Forward, an Advent Guide for Lectionary Year A from the North Carolina Council of Churches. Matthew 2:13-23 Now after they had left, an […]

2025 Advent: Lighting the Way Forward

By Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

As we journey through the Advent season, we are invited to reflect on the profound hope that the birth of Jesus Christ brought into a world often shrouded in darkness. […]

2025 Advent: Lighting the Way Forward

by Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

As we journey through the Advent season, we are invited to reflect on the profound hope that the birth of Jesus Christ brought into a world often shrouded in darkness. […]

90 Years Rooted in Faith: A Guiding Light

By Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

As we celebrate 90 years of faithful work for justice and equity this year, we’re sharing stories of 90 Years Rooted in Faith that reflect the heart of the North Carolina Council […]

90 Years Rooted in Faith: A Guiding Light

by Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

As we celebrate 90 years of faithful work for justice and equity this year, we’re sharing stories of 90 Years Rooted in Faith that reflect the heart of the North Carolina Council […]

2025 Lenten Guide: Easter Sunday

By Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from 2025 Lenten Guide: The Year of the Lord, a Lenten Guide for Lectionary Year C from the North Carolina Council of Churches. Luke 24:1-12 But on the first day of […]

2025 Lenten Guide: Easter Sunday

by Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from 2025 Lenten Guide: The Year of the Lord, a Lenten Guide for Lectionary Year C from the North Carolina Council of Churches. Luke 24:1-12 But on the first day of […]

2024 Advent Guide: Fourth Sunday

By Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from 2024 Advent Guide: Hope is Near, an Advent Guide for Lectionary Year C from the North Carolina Council of Churches. Luke 1:39-45, (46-55) In those days Mary set out and […]

2024 Advent Guide: Fourth Sunday

by Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from 2024 Advent Guide: Hope is Near, an Advent Guide for Lectionary Year C from the North Carolina Council of Churches. Luke 1:39-45, (46-55) In those days Mary set out and […]

2024 Lenten Guide: Fifth Sunday

By Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from 2024 Lenten Guide: Terror and Amazement, a Lenten Guide for Lectionary Year B from the North Carolina Council of Churches. John 12:20-33 Now among those who went up to worship […]

2024 Lenten Guide: Fifth Sunday

by Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from 2024 Lenten Guide: Terror and Amazement, a Lenten Guide for Lectionary Year B from the North Carolina Council of Churches. John 12:20-33 Now among those who went up to worship […]

2023 Lenten Guide: First Sunday in Lent

By Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from 2023 Lenten Guide: A Season of Renewal, a Lenten Guide for Lectionary Year A from the North Carolina Council of Churches. Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7 The Lord God took the man and […]

2023 Lenten Guide: First Sunday in Lent

by Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from 2023 Lenten Guide: A Season of Renewal, a Lenten Guide for Lectionary Year A from the North Carolina Council of Churches. Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7 The Lord God took the man and […]

2022 Advent Guide: Third Sunday

By Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from Keep Awake, an Advent Guide for Lectionary Year A from the North Carolina Council of Churches. Isaiah 35:1-10 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;    the desert shall […]

2022 Advent Guide: Third Sunday

by Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from Keep Awake, an Advent Guide for Lectionary Year A from the North Carolina Council of Churches. Isaiah 35:1-10 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;    the desert shall […]

2022 Advent Guide: Keep Awake

By Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

The central calling of an Advent ethic is waiting. But this waiting is not a passive or idle activity. The root word for wait is the same root word for […]

2022 Advent Guide: Keep Awake

by Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

The central calling of an Advent ethic is waiting. But this waiting is not a passive or idle activity. The root word for wait is the same root word for […]

2021 Advent Guide: Third Sunday of Advent

By Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Luke 3:7-18 John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear […]

2021 Advent Guide: Third Sunday of Advent

by Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Luke 3:7-18 John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear […]

Advent Guide: Christmas Day

By Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from The Heart of the Work, an Advent Guide for Lectionary Year B from the North Carolina Council of Churches. Luke 2:1-20 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree […]

Advent Guide: Christmas Day

by Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from The Heart of the Work, an Advent Guide for Lectionary Year B from the North Carolina Council of Churches. Luke 2:1-20 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree […]

Lenten Guide – Third Sunday

By Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from Power Made Perfect in Weakness, a Lenten Guide for Lectionary Year A from the North Carolina Council of Churches. John 4:5-42 So he came to a Samaritan city called […]

Lenten Guide – Third Sunday

by Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from Power Made Perfect in Weakness, a Lenten Guide for Lectionary Year A from the North Carolina Council of Churches. John 4:5-42 So he came to a Samaritan city called […]

Advent Guide: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

By Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from Cultivating Care for Creation, an Advent Guide for Lectionary Year A from the North Carolina Council of Churches. John 1:1-14a In the beginning was the Word, and the […]

Advent Guide: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

by Sean Allen, Director of Finance and Administration

Excerpted from Cultivating Care for Creation, an Advent Guide for Lectionary Year A from the North Carolina Council of Churches. John 1:1-14a In the beginning was the Word, and the […]