What Do You Want?
For Sunday, June 19, 2016 – Luke 8:26-39 What do you want with us, Jesus? Trapped in our raging sickness and pain, will we let you come close enough to give us aid? Or will you torment us, showing us only how lost we are? Desperate need surrounds us, its thick hot haze choking us, […]
Who’s at the Party?
For Sunday, June 12, 2016 – Luke 7:36-8:3 No one enjoys a dinner party more than Jesus. He so enjoys them that even when one of the Pharisees, who often like to trap him in some detail of religious law, asks him over, he doesn’t hesitate to accept the invitation. But won’t a Pharisee host hover over every detail, […]
In Between
For Sunday, June 5, 2016 – Luke 7:11-17 In the “in between” of life’s loneliest spaces, utterly disillusioned and lost, wiped out, erased, we do not expect to find great meaning. More often we search for meaning in busy, happy activities, where God’s grand purposes seem to pulse through us and we move easily on […]
Who Are You?
For Sunday, May 29, 2016 – Luke 7:1-10 Who are you, really? How likely is it that we will ever know each other, really? It is so much easier to make assumptions, to tuck each other into small compartments, our many costly but convenient categories. If I can label you politician, warmonger, religious zealot, peace […]
