1. Throughout the centuries and throughout earthquakes, famines, kingdoms falling and rising, God's Word has moved forward. Picking up pieces, people, lives, sins, and hopelessness only to turn them into diamonds through His Grace!
  2. We consider the year 1766, and preacher Jonathan Mayhew. The reading is from Thomas C. Oden's, "Classic Christianity."
  3. We consider the year 1115 and Peter the Hermit. The reading is the last verse of the poem “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” by Bernard of Clairvaux.
  4. We consider the year 1647 and the death of the “father of Connecticut,” Thomas Hooker. The reading is from "Tomb thou shalt not hold Him longer" by Phillips Brooks.
  5. The year was 1415. We remember the death of Jan Hus. The reading is from Hus’ “Exhortation to Peace."
  6. We remember the year 1962 and the death of Helmut Richard Niebuhr. The reading is an excerpt from Richard Niebuhr's sermon, “Man’s Work and God’s.”
  7. We consider the year 1848 and Francois-Rene Chateaubriand. The reading is a selection from Ronnie McBrayer, "The Jesus Tribe: Following Christ in the Land of the Empire."
  8. Who is a true child of God? Who is a true child of the promise? Paul gives a surprising allegory that helps us understand just how easily we fall into the trap of selling ourselves back into spiritual slavery.
  9. We remember the year 529 and the Second Council of Orange. The reading is from the 7th century, “Caedmon’s Hymn."
  10. We remember the year 1505 and Luther's famous moment, “Help me St. Anne, I shall become a monk.” The reading is a quote from Luther's, "On the Freedom of the Christian."
  11. The year was 1942, and we remember the godfather of modern Gospel music, Andrae Crouch. The reading is an excerpt from C.S. Lewis' "Screwtape Letters."
  12. We consider the year 1758, and we remember the birth of abolitionist James Stephen. The reading is from Jupiter Hammon, the first African slave to have poetry published in America, a selection from his “An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries."