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
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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
Sunday 14 July 2019The Fifth Sunday of Pentecost Luke 10:25-37 The scene opens on Jesus as he is on his way to Jerusalem. He has sent out his seventy disciples already to spread the good news and heal, and they … Continue reading
Sunday 23 June 2019The Second Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 12C 1 Kings 19:1-15a Not this last week, but the week before, I was at the Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church. We met in the same hotel as … Continue reading
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
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