How Shall We Pray?
For Sunday, July 24, 2016 – Luke 11:1-13 In these soul-wrenching days, does God hear our cries? With what words shall the “created” attempt to speak to the Creator? Can we risk saying aloud our longing, our loneliness, our indifference, our pain? Jesus’ friends have been listening, watching, noticing how he goes again and again to quiet places alone to pray. […]
Both Martha and Mary
For Sunday, July 17, 2016 – Luke 10:38-42 The story begins quite simply: “As they continue on their way, he enters a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomes Jesus into her home.” Martha is at the heart of this tale, welcoming Jesus and, we assume, his entire group. Through her actions, she expresses her gladness that such […]
First Love
For Sunday, July 10, 2016 – Luke 10:25-37 A brief exchange between a religious legal expert and Jesus is enough to hear again how simple and uncomplicated is God’s way. “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” the lawyer asks. We too hear people say that what matters most is to be saved—but […]
Be on the Way
For Sunday, July 3, 2016 – Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 Jesus has “set his face toward Jerusalem,” where the ways of the world are at last confronted by God’s. Any secret quest for accomplishment and entitlement they might have had, any notion about how they might have performed better or used better strategy or weaponry to achieve God’s kingdom on earth, […]
