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 […]
Other Gospels
For Sunday, June 2, 2013 – Galatians 1:1-12 People whom Paul says had been set free from their “present evil age” were now “quickly deserting…and turning to a different gospel.” This has been the temptation for Christians from the beginning. It’s nice to know we’re not alone. Maybe we are tugged away by the prosperity gospel. Or it […]
Truth Test
For Sunday, May 26, 2013 – Psalm 8 When the Spirit of truth comes, John says, we will be guided into all the truth (John 16:13). That is a remarkable statement, considering how uncertain most of us are about what is true and what is false. Are we being told the truth? Are we purveyors of […]
