Blogging Towards Sunday, December 7, 2014
Isaiah 40:1-11 & Mark 1:1-8 These two scriptures paint pictures of a victory parade and a beginning. Those are the images that we sit with today we imagine and wrestle with the … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday November 30, 2014
Isaiah 64:1-9 & 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 The First Sunday of Advent HOPE Today is the first day in the Church – or Liturgical – Year: the way of seeing life through the lenses … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, November 23, 2014
Mark 6:32-44 Thanksgiving. It’s a week from my writing of this text today. It’s a time we give thanks, express our gratitude for life. President Lincoln established it as a … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, November 16, 2014
Psalm 19 & John 10:1-6 “Talk is cheap” says the common idiom. And yet talk is what we do. At lunch. Over dinner. Catch up over coffee. When we whisper our prayers. … Continue reading
Blogging Towards, Sunday, November 9, 2014
2 Corinthians 5:11-6:2 Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It’s increasingly a foreign element in our culture. Rather that persuade with alliterate argumentation and lyrical logic, we scream, shout and rant … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, October 19, 2014
1 Corinthians 3:16-4:16 How do we interpret the Bible? Does it even speak to our life and context today? How do we know, because it doesn’t seem like Jesus says … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, October 12, 2014
Psalm 98 & Isaiah 58:1-12 Worship is vital. It’s the heart of who we are. But how do y do it? Is there a right,, and thus necessarily a wrong way … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, October 5, 2014
Thoughts on Today’s Scripture Psalm 148 & Matthew 11:1-7. 19-36 Today we celebrate the bigness of creation, which is minute compared with the vastness of God. Anselm wrote in the Middle Ages that … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, July 20, 2014
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 & Romans 8:12-25 How can we understand the presence of evil in the world? If God is present and has saved us in Christ Jesus, shouldn’t everything … Continue reading
Blogging Towards Sunday, June 29, 2014
Matthew 10:37-42 & Romans 6:12-23 Last week we talked of freedom – freedom for and freedom from. In his famous letter of pastoral advice to the ancient church in Rome, Paul … Continue reading
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