“A Simple Song of Freedom” – Psalm 97 and Acts 16:16-34 (Year C, Easter 7)

2025-05-23T11:06:01-04:00May 26th, 2025|Lectionary Sermon Starters|

Read the Lectionary Texts   What a great Bible story! Can you picture it? Paul and Silas are in shackles, unjustly convicted and now held somewhere deep in the bowels of the Philippi City Jail. It is midnight, and they’re praying – and singing! What a strange thing to do – to sing – in jail – at midnight! I wonder what song they’re singing. “Jailhouse Rock”? “Folsom Prison Blues”? “Please Release Me, Let Me Go”? And while Paul and Silas are singing up a storm in their cell at the Philippi City Jail, all the other prisoners are listening and [READ MORE]