NextSunday Resources

Telephone bells, doorbells, school bells, and fire alarms all alert us and prepare us to go into action. Our modern use of bells is totally different than one hundred years ago. Church bells rang...

https://www.nextsunday.com/bells-a-meditation-for-teachers/

“I want to go home” is not just the plaintive cry of kindergarten students on the first day of school; it is the longing of every person who pays attention to his or her heart. For some, noth...

https://www.nextsunday.com/homeward-bound/

Isaiah reminds us that the Lord will prepare a feast for us, that God will swallow up death forever and wipe away our tears. And we will be able to say that we trusted in God and he saved us.

https://www.nextsunday.com/crossroads-when-we-all-get-to-heaven-all-saints-day/

1 Corinthians 14:26-33, 37-40 About eleven centuries after Paul wrote to the church in Corinth, the Old English word weorthscipe came into use, meaning “honor, esteem, veneration, dignity.” A...

https://www.nextsunday.com/formations-11-10-2024-putting-the-we-in-weorthscipe/

Hebrews 9:18-10:1 You may notice that our Connections lessons from Hebrews this month are a little bit… I hesitate to say it… repetitive. The writer of Hebrews has found themes that wind arou...

https://www.nextsunday.com/connections-11-10-2024-the-strand-of-sanctuary/

I went on a run yesterday. I’ve always wanted to be a runner but have never been able to cultivate the strength and endurance and discipline to bring that dream to life.

https://www.nextsunday.com/rediscovering-centering-prayer/

Heal our fears, the jagged-scar fears that slice the skin of our communion, rip us one from another, bleed lines of division.

https://www.nextsunday.com/heal-our-fears/

When my mom was a teenager, she really wanted to be a youth minister. She felt God’s call and she knew that she should be a youth minister. But in that time, women weren’t really ministers. A...

https://www.nextsunday.com/crossroads-dont-stop-believing/

Hebrews 9:1, 6-16 Our new unit of Connections delves into lessons from the book of Hebrews, leading up to the last Sunday of the liturgical church year, Reign of Christ Sunday, before Advent begi...

https://www.nextsunday.com/connections-11-03-2024-where-theres-a-will/

John 4:16-24 Worship that pleases God The church of my youth could sometimes be preoccupied with the same question the Samaritan woman posed to Jesus: Where is the correct place to worship? For t...

https://www.nextsunday.com/formations-11-03-2024-are-we-missing-the-point/