Notice the Signs
For Sunday, November 29, 2015 – Luke 21:25-36 It is easier to notice what is breaking down than what is emerging. The earth in distress, we notice. Nations confused and in turmoil, we notice. People “fainting from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world,” we notice. We more often fail to see […]
What Is Your Business Here?
For Sunday, November 22, 2015 – John 18:33-37 Today marks the close of another year’s journey with Jesus. Here we stand once more, overhearing Jesus be quizzed by Pilate. Like a teacher issuing a stern final exam, Pilate gathers his central concerns about Jesus into a single question, the key question-above-all-questions for us all: Who […]
Grow Up
For Sunday, November 15, 2015 – Mark 13:1-8 We get the idea that maturity means laying down childish illusions and accepting hard realities. “Grow up!” we say, meaning stop fantasizing about having an easy life and resign yourself to the life that is. Jesus, too, wants us to grow up—to become mature children of God—but his […]
Unexpected Abundance
For Sunday, November 8, 2015 – Mark 12:38-44 To our detriment we arrange the world into opposing types: the rich and the poor, the educated and the ignorant, the moral and the immoral, the teacher and the learner, the powerful and the lowly. Jesus warns us to beware this habit and to look again. The scribes, he says, like to walk […]
