Matthew 21:33-46
How do we use the gifts that have been given to us? That’s really what that parable is about in the gospel reading today. The parable that Matthew has in his gospel is trying to address a community of faith that is changing and shifting…
Exodus 17:1-7, Matthew 21:23-32
Have you ever spent a day with a cranky kid? A whiner? It might have started out OK but maybe they just got up on the wrong side of the bed. Perhaps they are getting ready for school and can’t decide what to wear…
Matthew 20:1-16
“No fair!” What parent hasn’t heard that from their child? And even if you’re not a parent, you’ve heard a child say it, “No fair! Tom invited Susie to his birthday party, and not me. No fair!” “She gets to stay up until nine o’clock and I don’t. No fair!”…
Matthew 18:21-35
I think that Jesus had a very particular way of making friends. Or you might say a very particular way of entering into relationships with folks. That’s quite different from the way you and I enter into relationships or the way you and I make friends…
<em>Matthew 18:15-20</em>
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Exodus 3:1-15, Matthew 16:21-28
So when was the last time God spoke to you? When was the last time you heard God’s voice? I know when I ask that question there are many kinds of answers. It depends on what you mean by the voice of God…
Matthew 16:13-20
There’s a spiritual practice called Lectio Divina. It’s a fancy Latin word for reading and engaging and letting the scriptures speak to you. And what does it say to you? The approach is really studying what this scripture is about…
Matthew 15: 10-28
A couple of weeks ago a member of our parish came up to me and said, “George, I’ve really been pondering and thinking about what you said in that homily a couple of months ago.” I remember turning and saying, “What homily, and what did I say?”…
Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28, Matthew 14:22-33
When I was a college student in the 1970’s, there came out a wrist band that we wore in honor of the prisoners of war and missing in action soldiers in Vietnam. These bracelets had been produced by a group to keep in front of us that there were many missing soldiers…
Matthew 14:13-21
I recently attended a concert at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre which is a huge outdoor venue. I have been there many times over the years, sometimes sitting the lawn and other times sitting under the roofed end section…