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4th Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 11 June 16, 2013 Luke 7:36-8:3
Here comes Jesus, breaking the rules again. Two weeks ago, he healed the slave of a pagan colonel without even being in the same room with him, last week, he touched a dead man, raising him from death and giving him back to his mother. This week, he’s letting some wretched woman [continue reading...] 2nd Sunday after Pentecost June 2, 2013 Luke 7:1-10
A pastor friend of mine called me with a story a few years ago. She was amazed that a family that she barely knew had sent a check for $300. She’d never met this family before being called to the bedside of their dying father. She visited exactly twice: leading them in a litany that commended him into God’s care, and the next day reading [continue reading...]
Trinity Sunday and Confirmation of Jacob Cook May 26, 2013 John 16: 12-15 and Romans 5: 1-5
OK, settle down and make yourself comfortable, now. I’m going to take about 20 minutes to explain the doctrine of the Trinity and how it shaped our history as the Christian Church, over against the accepted mono-theistic teachings of Judaism in the first through the fourth [continue reading...]
Pentecost Sunday May 19, 2013 Acts 2: 1-21 & John 14: 8-17, 25-27
A few weeks ago we had a birthday cake for the Church when we talked about the Pentecost story in Confirmation. It was chocolate with raspberry filling and we put 20 candles on it, one for every 100 years. The bakery guy at Ray’s was a [continue reading...]
7th Sunday of Easter May 12, 2013 John 17:20-26 Whenever I am in a group, everyone looks to me to pray before we eat, to lay hands on someone sick and pray for healing, to lead an opening or closing prayer. I am usually the designated prayer by default. So many people are afraid that their prayers will not be right or not be enough. [continue reading...]
Pastor Barbara renews her Baptismal vows in Lydia's river outside of Philippi, October 2010 6th Sunday of Easter May 5, 2013 Acts 16:9-15 and John 14: 23-29 When we went to Greece and Turkey in 2010, we took a flat picture of Jesus with us to photograph in all the places we visited. I think of this for two reasons: first, we took flat Jesus [continue reading...]
5th Sunday of Easter April 28, 2013 Acts 11: 1-18 and John 13: 31-35 When I began to work with a trainer at the gym, he started me out with lunges and bicep and tricep exercises. They called me “Pastor Lungmaster” because I did lunges until I thought I’d fall over, but they began to make me strong and improve my balance. My arms [continue reading...]
4th Sunday of Easter April 21, 2013 John 10:22-30, Psalm 23, Revelation 7:9-17 It’s been a long week, another one filled with heartache, fear, and suspense. My Facebook pages have been filled with prayers of sympathy and hope. More than a method of keeping up with the lives and ministries of my young friends from seminary, it is a [continue reading...]
3rd Sunday of Easter April 14, 2013 John 21:1-19 and Acts 9:1-20 Sometimes it’s a struggle to deal with the lectionary – those readings that have been used from ancient times at certain times of the church year. But sometimes, like this week, I get to talk about two of my favorite stories at the same time. This story about Paul’s “Conversion” gets me [continue reading...]
Easter Sunday March 31, 2013 Luke 24: 1-12 and 1 Corinthians 15: 19-26 Welcome! Welcome to Spring! Welcome to the empty tomb! Welcome to the blessed chance of resurrection. “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” ask those astonishing presences who scare the daylights out of those faithful women They have just come to do their final sorrowful duty to this One [continue reading...] |
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