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
David King
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
Sunday 8 September 2019The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 23C Philemon 1-25 This morning we read the entirety of one of the books the bible. We read the entire letter of Paul to Philemon. Of all of Paul’s letters, this … Continue reading
Sunday 1 September 2019The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 22C Jeremiah 2:4-13 We were recently in England for the 18th International Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford. I gave a paper on Clement of Alexandria and his reading of the … Continue reading
Sunday 25 August 2019The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 21C Jeremiah 1:4-10 About a generation and a half ago, seminaries taught new pastors a preaching method called the three-point sermon, so called because the preacher would try to make three … Continue reading
Sunday 11 August 2019The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 The text from Isaiah this morning comes in three parts, and so you get a sermon in three parts. In part one, we are told that worship is worthless … Continue reading
Sunday 4 August 2019The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 18C Luke 12:13-21 Today we have to tackle the single most difficult topic in the Bible. It’s more difficult than politics, more difficult than all of the details of religious doctrine, … Continue reading
Sunday 28 July 2019The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 17C Luke 11:1-13 Jesus’s disciples ask him, “Teach us to pray. And Jesus responds to them with words that sound somewhat familiar, and also a little off. I’m going to read … Continue reading
Sunday 21 July 2019The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 16C Luke 10:38-42 This Sunday’s gospel lesson tells the story of two sisters, Mary and Martha. They appear in two different places in the bible. There is this story in the … Continue reading