Luke 13:1-9
We begin the liturgy on each of these Sundays in Lent with the Decalogue, a reciting of the Ten Commandments, a gentle prayer for mercy in the keeping of them, and then we go about making a confession acknowledging in some way we’ve not quite kept everything we intended. This reminds us that there are guideposts in our lives. There are times when we fail and when we sin.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Luke 4:21-30
“Now Marriage has been around for a long time, the desire to seek another person to travel with in our life can be sacred… the will to bind ourselves to another life…”
Matthew 2:1-12
Whether it’s our habit it to put our trees up early or late, there’s an afterglow of Christmas.
Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)
This summer, Maxwell returned home with a 10-pound poodle that we were asked to foster… “No, we won’t be adopting her”… but we had not calculated on the fact that she would shortly adopt us…
Readings: “Mark 13:35-36, Luke 3:7-18”
“Watch, because you do not know when the master of the house is coming, at evening or at midnight or at cock crow, lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. Rejoice in the Lord always…”
John 11:32-44
The year after I finished college I lived in London. And there I worshiped in a parish called All-Saints on Margaret Street. My prior worship had been shaped by a rather dark, moon-like ornamented church in Greensboro, NC….
Job 42:1-6, 10-17, Mark 10:46-52
Remember what it’s like to walk into a conversation halfway? It can be far more interesting than the whole conversation. “If I could just throttle his neck.” “She seems to be all over him.” “You lie, your feet smell, and you don’t love your Jesus.”…
John 15:9-17
Jesus that did in Mary dwell, be in your servants’ hearts as well. In the spirit of your holiness, in the fullness of your force and stress, in the very ways that your life goes, in virtues that your patterns show…
John 18:1-19:42
Preaching Good Friday is always a challenge because it’s a day of such profundity. A day when the heart of God and the heart of humanity collide, and yet miss each other and later find each other…
Mark 11: 1-11, Mark 14:1-15:47
Have you ever had someone do an unexpected kindness for you? A note in the mail that touches you at a time of your need, an offer for conversation over coffee when that’s just what you want…