Sunday 8 December 2019The Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 11:1-10 The passage this morning from Isaiah is one of the best known in Isaiah, and it’s one of the better known passages in the entire bible. It’s often referred to … Continue reading
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Sunday 1 December 2019The First Sunday of Advent Romans 13:11-14 There were two men in a village, a tall man and a short man; they were neighbors. This was many years ago, before electricity. If people needed heat, they relied … Continue reading
Sunday 17 November 2019The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 33C Isaiah 65:17-25 New heavens and a new earth. It sounds quite a lot like another bible text we know. Revelation 21: “Then I saw a new heaven and a new … Continue reading
Sunday 10 November 2019The Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 32C Haggai 1:15b-2:9 I have been in the church my entire life, for forty years now. And for that entire time, people have been talking about how the church is dying. … Continue reading
Sunday 3 November 2019All Saints Sunday Luke 6:20-31 The text this morning from Luke is at once familiar and unfamiliar, at once comforting and disturbing, at once affirming and challenging. I was teaching on this text recently, for the Synodically … Continue reading
Sunday 27 October 2019Reformation Sunday Luke 18:9-14 We are trained to think that Pharisees are bad people. Jesus and his disciples encounter Pharisees numerous times in the gospels and in Acts, and they are almost always the bad guys, the … Continue reading
Sunday 20 October 2019The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 29C 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 I want to spend quite a bit of time this morning on just one verse of scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16. Some of you know this as an … Continue reading
Sunday 13 October 2019The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 28C Luke 17:11-19 The Gospel of Luke tells the story of two Samaritans. There is the story here in chapter 17 about a group of lepers who were healed by Jesus, … Continue reading
Sunday 22 September 2019The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 25C Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then have my people not been restored to health? The prophet Jeremiah cries out in lament … Continue reading
Sunday 15 September 2019The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 24C 1 Timothy 1:12-17 In the Cemetery Tales next weekend, I’m portraying Major League Baseball player and Christian evangelist, Billy Sunday. He was the most famous evangelist of the early 20th … Continue reading