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…
Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52
I’m asked oftentimes by folks here at St. Paul’s about things that we do on Sunday in the liturgy. Why do we do this prayer? What’s the meaning of this? I want to address that today. I want to talk about what we refer to as the Eucharistic Prayer…
Matthew 13:24-30,36-43
Well I think we’re solidly into summer now. We’ve made that final slide after the wrapping up of the school year, planning a vacation, and all kind of nice warm weather coming our way. I can almost feel the little reduction in activity…