Going Public
For Sunday, December 7, 2014 – Mark 1:1-8 Have you found a place yet where you feel so very safe and loved that you want to confess your sins? Not list by rote a few lapses in behavior, some of your small regrets, but reveal your soul-wrenching heart of hearts and be loved anyway. Such places of compassion and trust are rare. Our world is dying for […]
Fear and Love
For Sunday, November 30, 2014 – Mark 13:24-37 In a continual state of high alert, we live much of our days. We are told, keep your wits about you. If you notice any suspicious person or activity, alert the authorities without delay. No one knows the day of our reckoning. Beware. Keep awake. In this passage, it sounds like Jesus might […]
The Lives We Live
For Sunday, November 23, 2014 – Matthew 25:31-46 We live many lives during this one life. Some of my “lives” are remarkably open and generous; other “lives” anxiously urge me not to trust God’s providence but to store up against the threat of want and refuse to share, even with people whose needs are more immediate. Some of my lives, because they are firmly […]
Stand Up, Stand Up to Jesus
For Sunday, November 16, 2014 – Matthew 25:14-30 Really? ‘Throw him into the outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth?!’ All because the servant fears the master and has poor investment strategy? What a disturbing conclusion to a complex parable. Who would want to serve a master who ridicules the economic prowess of […]
