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 […]
What Is Your Business Here?
For Sunday, November 22, 2015 – John 18:33-37 Today marks the close of another year’s journey with Jesus. Here we stand once more, overhearing Jesus be quizzed by Pilate. Like a teacher issuing a stern final exam, Pilate gathers his central concerns about Jesus into a single question, the key question-above-all-questions for us all: Who […]
