Desperate Times
For Sunday, June 23, 2013 – Luke 8:26-39 Desperate times call for desperate actions. His disciples had just come through a harrowing night at sea (while Jesus slept peacefully, you’ll recall). On their way to the other side a great wind had swept down on them and threatened to overtake them. Life happens that way. […]
To Love Well
For Sunday, June 16, 2013 – Luke 7:36-8:3 Immediate compassionate response trumps premeditated politeness. The host was thoughtful, no doubt, well-meaning and polite, curious about Jesus, but from a bit of a distance. The ‘sinning city woman’ knew nothing of distance. She was all-out passion. If the host was a small breeze, she was a blast of wind, a tangle of tears and […]
Death and Life
For Sunday, June 9, 2013 – Luke 7:11-17 “As Jesus approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out.” In such moments of ordinary, life-altering serendipity, Jesus approaches. Real Life, the Life beyond life, walks in, just as the life we thought we knew is on its way out. Whether or not we see […]
