Listen to the Children
For Sunday, December 27, 2015 – Luke 2:41-52 Earlier in December a friend’s young granddaughter woke up to find her world draped in a fresh coat of snow. She tumbled out of bed, dressed herself and headed outdoors to play in the deep white wonder. Without a whisper, she was gone. No one else knew where she was going or what she […]
Small Moments
For Sunday, December 20, 2015 – Luke 1:39-45, (46-55) We tend to remember the big moments more than the small. During the Advent and Christmas season we recall in story and song the high points—an angel’s startling visitation to a young girl, her bewilderment and subsequent marriage to her befuddled fiancé and their dangerous journey to and from Bethlehem. We retell stories […]
Getting Specific
For Sunday, December 13, 2015 – Luke 3:7-18 The one called John the Baptist, a prophet shaped by wilderness, educated outside the religious and political systems, begins to announce God’s new order and invite people into it. He has the feeling that many who come to be baptized by him are seeking self-preservation more than self-surrender. I wonder if he […]
Proclaim the New
For Sunday, December 6, 2015 – Luke 3:1-6 Luke has quite the story to tell. Lest we chalk up his enthusiasm to his close personal relationship with the protagonist, he sets the tale in a particular period of history. This story, he says, is not simply a mythic tale of a legendary friend. It really […]
