12262020 – Christmas I – Luke 2. 22-40 Another Christmas has passed – for some – it is over and done with…for all intents and purposes it maybe even packed away. The tree maybe already at the curb…or back in its box. But for others of us…the glow of the season lingers on. We […]
12242020 – Luke 2. 1-20 Christmas Eve – 11:00 P.M. Candlelight SO FAR, we have survived “a hellacious year” and it HAS BEEN “an exhaustive and strange one, at that.” Different… “totally and completely different.” A year filled with unprecedented changes… “WE ARE HERE,” some of us, for the FIRST time, some— as an […]
12232020 – Luke 1. 26-38 Advent 4B Biblically speaking, WHEN a messenger from God SHOWS UP, you know things are about to change in a BIG way. Yikes! Get SCARED. Get VERY scared! Going back in the Hebrew Bible, we KNOW of stories about other Biblical women. Women like Sara or Rachel or Rebecca or […]
12202020 – Luke 1. 26-38 Advent 4B This is all about setting the stage, as it were. Reminding us of the proper context…to read and to understand this passage. To begin with, we are talking about the Gospel according to Luke, also written anonymously…like those that have preceded it. Luke is the third gospel […]
11252020 – Luke 17.11-19 I am guilty. I am pretty sure, we ALL are. I can be thankful. I can be FILLED with gratitude. But I can also COME OFF as being THANKLESS, sometimes. One might think that I am altogether DEVOID of a thankful spirit…DEVOID of any and all gratitude whatsoever… […]
Luke 24. 13-35 – 04262020 On this third Sunday of Easter, we find ourselves traveling a road … that is “insanely FAMILIAR.” ALMOST every one of us, regardless of our “circumstance,” knows THIS ROAD. We have WALKED it. If we have NOT, we ONE DAY WILL. OTHERS have as well. MANY others. Lots of others. […]
020220 – The Presentation of Our Lord Luke 2. 22-40 According to the Torah, the Five Books of the Law or the Pentateuch there are at least three rituals that must be followed after the birth of a male-child. On the 8th day, Jesus had to be circumcised. Circumcision was always a ritual of the […]
010820 – Luke 13. 31-35 “How often I had desired…and YOU were NOT willing.” Unfortunately, it is an “old-old story…” And, it is a well-known story… Some would argue it is “as old” – as the story of the “GARDEN OF EDEN…going all the way back to Genesis chapter 3. I love it when teaching […]
121119 – JOHN gets Busy-Luke 3.1-12 Prepare yourselves for a little bit of history, NOT from ME mind you, but from the author, LUKE. TIME has elapsed, and it is now the fifteenth year of the reign of the Roman emperor TIBERIUS. Since he ruled from 14 to 37 CE, it is likely that […]
112719B – Luke 17. 11-19 Someone once wrote and said that there are TWO TYPES of people in the world. In a couple of minutes I’m going to ask you to think about WHERE you fit-in. First, there are those who fill up their GAS TANK any time the gauge gets BELOW half a tank. […]