22nd Sunday after Pentecost, Lectionary 33 November 13, 2011 Psalm 90 You’ve probably heard enough sermons on the Parable of the Talents to last a lifetime. Me too. So there won’t be a sermon today on the text from Matthew (Matthew 25: 14-30). What caught my attention as I read the texts for this morning […]
Are You Listening?
Transfiguration Sunday March 6, 2011 Matthew 17:1-9 We hear this astonishing story every year on the last Sunday before Lent begins. It’s a great story, but it strains our scientific, logical understanding of the world, and pitches us back into a time when people believed in miraculous occurrences. Or at least that is how they […]
Living in Tents: Tabernacle, God’s Dwelling Place
12th Sunday after Pentecost (Lectionary 20) August 15, 2010 Exodus 25 through 40 Several months after the People of Israel left Egypt by crossing the Red Sea, they came to the base of Mount Sinai. God had travelled with them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, so […]