12152021 – Luke 3. 7-18 Advent III I think I am right. But I have been wrong so many times in my life, that I even doubt myself sometimes, maybe even often. I think I am right. I think we do not HEAR the Baptizer. Maybe we never did hear him. We silence him and […]
12042021 – Luke 3. 1-6 This passage from Luke for the Second Sunday of Advent points to “competing worldviews.” It clashes, tussles, grapples, and contends with, the best of the worldviews of the time. The opening verses are “deceptively subversive.” Into the “religious reigns” AND into the “Imperial kingdoms” of the first century the WORD […]
12012021 – Luke 21. 25-36 There are “so many distractions.” So “many things” constantly going on… Sometimes, it seems like “it is hard to stay on top of it all.” I have lists all over the place…the problem is, sometimes I misplace my lists or accidentally toss them out…never to SEE them again… (So much […]
11272021 – Luke 21. 25-36 Think of “a pan of water” with a lid covering it. What’s under the lid “is hidden.” It is “an unknown”…until such time as “the lid is removed.” It could be liver and onions for all I know “under there.” EWWW – just saying… Then, with the lid removed – […]
11242021 – Matthew 6. 25-33 It was a cold, crisp, clear Wednesday night in a big city. It was the night before Thanksgiving. A guy was pushing an old, beat-up shopping cart along a back-alley way. It was filled with discarded clothes, old newspapers, some cardboard, and a couple of cans of food…it squeaked as […]
11202021 – Christ the King Its been hard to “miss” or to “ignore” that there have been a couple of trials going on – of late. One, almost right in our own back yard, just a hop and a skip away, down the road in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The facts of that case have never […]
11172021 – Mark 13. 1-8 My purpose is not to “alarm” anyone. My purpose is just “to share” some research. Research of a mixed type. Nancy Gibbs authored an article entitled: “Apocalypse Now.” “What do you WATCH FOR…when you are watching the NIGHTLY NEWS? For many years the Church and Biblical scholars have used the […]
11132021 – Mark 13. 1-8 Nothing lasts forever… This calls for a visual. But the visual must be in “the mind’s eye.” So, picture this, if you will: As the disciples walked out of the Temple in Jerusalem Jesus paused, looked back at the Temple, and predicted, “Do you see all these great buildings. Not […]
11102021 – The Saints Remembered… A little hymnology for this evening. “For ALL the Saints” People love it or hate it. One of our previous pianist’s REALLY-really DISLIKED playing this particular song. Others despise its eight verses in length. I never felt “one way or another” about it, until coming here. It includes our namesake. […]
11062021 – All Saints Sunday This is always such a SPECIAL WEEKEND in OUR “faith community.” It is a celebration of our NAMESAKE and WHO WE ARE. WE ARE “all saints.” And to my way of thinking, there is NO “other place,” exactly like “THIS PLACE,” on the face of the globe. We are a […]