Finding the Joy
For Sunday, September 11, 2016 – Luke 15:1-10 – Luke 15:1-10 Having just squeezed through the narrow gate of suddenly losing my mom, the heart of our family, the power strip who kept the rest of us plugged in and connected, it was quite challenging to hear Jesus say in last Sunday’s gospel passage that if we come to him and […]
A Resurrection Feast
Luke 14:1, 7-14 One of the religious leaders invites Jesus to a Sabbath meal, and everyone watches him closely. Jesus brings an aura of mystery and curiosity wherever he goes. What will he say or do? How might the whole group end up being challenged and changed? The air is charged with anticipation, and likely sprinkled with some degree […]
Bent Over or Free
For Sunday, August 21, 2016 – Luke 13:10-17 While Jesus teaches in one of the synagogues, a woman appears “with a spirit that has crippled her for eighteen years.” For eighteen long years she has been “bent over and quite unable to stand up straight.” What kind of spirit has so much capacity to alter […]
The Peace of Division
For Sunday, August 14, 2016 – Luke 12:49-56 No doubt about it, Jesus’ teachings can be difficult. Maybe he wants to shake us from the complacency of a quiet discipleship and the comfortable rhythms we come to enjoy. Maybe he sees how we tend to choose cozy companions and soft, safe prayers, so sometimes, instead […]
