Sunday 16 June 2019Trinity Sunday Romans 5:1-5 One of the great moral philosophers of our time has said, “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” That philosopher, of course, is Master Yoda. He tells about … Continue reading
David King
Sunday 9 June 2019Pentecost Sunday Acts 2:1-21 Today is the festival of Pentecost. It is named Pentecost because it happens on the fiftieth and final day of the Season of Easter. It was already a festival in the Jewish Calendar, … Continue reading
Sunday 2 June 2019Ascension Sunday Luke 24:44-53Acts 1:1-11 “Ascensión C,” Cerezo Barredo The lectionary readings from today present us with a unique situation: the same event, described by the same author, in two separate books of the bible. The Gospel … Continue reading
Sunday 26 May 2019The Sixth Sunday of EasterGraduation Recognition Sunday Acts 16:6-15 Paul’s dream of the Macedonian man. It has been a hard time for Paul. Things had been going fairly well in his mission to the Gentiles. But then … Continue reading
Sunday 19 May 2019The Fifth Sunday of Easter John 13:31-35 Jesus washes the feet of his disciples. For the past several weeks, we have been hearing post-resurrection stories from the Gospel of John. We have heard about Jesus’s appearance to … Continue reading
Sunday 5 May 2019The Third Sunday of Easter John 21:1-19 Last week we talked a bit about the passage in John that comes right before this one. Perhaps you remember it. It’s the evening of the first Easter, and the … Continue reading
Sunday 28 April 2019The Second Sunday of Easter John 20:19-31 It’s still Easter. The disciples have gotten the news that Jesus is risen. They’ve heard the reports from the empty tomb. They’ve heard Mary Magdalene’s story of how she saw … Continue reading
Sunday 21 April 2019Easter Day John 20:1-18 With his 2003 best-seller, The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown stirred up a fury of controversy around the figure of Mary Magdalene. He portrays Mary as the wife of Jesus, the mother of … Continue reading
Sunday 14 April 2019Palm Sunday Based on the work of Henry Admiraal. Thank you, Joseph. As you heard in the previous reporting, the unusual display from Jesus of Nazareth happened during a time of already heightened alert. The population of … Continue reading
Sunday 7 April 2019The Fifth Sunday in Lent John 12:1-8 Jesus is anointed with expensive perfume by a woman. Some version of this story happens in all four of the gospels, but the details are different in each gospel. Three … Continue reading