Imagine New Ways
For Sunday, August 4, 2013 – Luke 12:13-21 It isn’t that he did anything wrong exactly, the land owner whose crops yielded abundantly. Nature gives. Should he regret the bounty of the harvest? Should he let it go to waste in the field, proving himself to be a lazy and ungrateful servant? No, the problem for the land […]
Keep On
For Sunday, July 28, 2013 – Luke 11:1-13 In the book Clinging, the Experience of Prayer, Emilie Griffin begins this way: “There is a moment between intending to pray and actually praying that is as dark and silent as any moment in our lives. It is the split second between thinking about prayer and really praying. For […]
Worry and Compassion
For Sunday, July 21, 2013 – Luke 10:38-42 and Colossians 1:15-28 Can’t you hear the affection in his voice: “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things.” Jesus calls it like he sees it—and I think what he sees is not only Martha, but all of us. How prone we are to worry and distraction! […]
God’s Realm Is Near
For Sunday, July 7, 2013 – Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 Often we think of twelve disciples, but here Jesus appoints a group of about 72 to go out ahead of him into every town he intends to go. They will test the waters, see where the welcome waits and where it does not. More importantly, they […]
