Take Another Look
For Sunday, March 15, 2015 – John 3:14-21 “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness…,” today’s passage says, “so must the Son of Man be lifted up.” This is one of those small bites of scripture we are apt to glide right past in our hurry to get to the meat of the message. […]
A Church in the Marketplace
John 2:13-22 Hardly any church bazaar or bake sale passes without someone making lighthearted reference to this scripture about Jesus at the temple, overturning the tables of the money changers and driving out those who are selling cattle, sheep and doves. Maybe we joke because we don’t quite know what to make of our typically calm friend now in […]
Come and See
For Sunday, January 18, 2015 – John 1:43-51 “Come and see,” Philip says to Nathanael. “Come and see who this Jesus really is.” Philip has full confidence that in this one extraordinary, ordinary man, son of Joseph and Mary from Nazareth, can be seen everything they long for, everything promised by Moses and the prophets. […]
The Word
For Sunday, January 4, 2014 – John 1:1-18 “In the beginning,” John says, “was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Like a minstrel, John sings out across the ages, gathers us again at the first fires of creation and draws us into the unfolding story: “What has come into […]
