Hate and Love
For Sunday, September 8, 2013 – Luke 14:25-33 Things don’t go the way we plan. I don’t turn out to be who I thought I would be. I notice you don’t either. The plans we’ve made for our future change. What it means to follow Jesus changes, too. Jesus, his message and his acts, are growing popular; […]
Entertaining Strangers
For Sunday, September 1, 2013 – Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 – Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 She showed up without a reservation, as most of God’s emissaries do. Clutching two plastic shopping bags, a scattered look in her eyes, she said quickly, “I was sent by Father Such-and-So. He gave me money and told me to come here.” Rats. The good Father […]
You Are Set Free
For Sunday, August 25, 2013 – Luke 13:10-17 She had been bent over, crippled, for 18 years — a lifetime within a lifetime. Each 18-year segment of our lives, complete unto itself, fertile with its own potential, yielding an entire crop of experiences. Given 18 years we can reach a longed for destination, achieve a goal; we can […]
Making Demands of God
For Sunday, August 18, 2013 – Psalm 82 The psalmist has experienced God as a God of justice and mercy, but when he looks at the vast needs of so many, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, the nations failing to serve, he has to wonder. He interrogates the Holy One, demanding response. “What’s going […]
