What I Might Have Preached
Since I was on vacation, I didn’t preach this morning. The gospel reading was John 20:19-31, known to many as the Doubting Thomas passage. There are a ton of ways to preach this one, particularly if...
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The scandalous character of ministry
The Lectionary did us no favors by jumping into Luke at chapter 7, skipping what I think are the two most important chapters in the whole gospel in 5 and 6. Smack in between the calling of disciples...
View ArticleYou want me to throw what into the sea? (Eating Scripture)
For the last two and a half chapters in the gospel we call Luke, Jesus has been building up this teaching on faithfulness and action. It began with the crowd when he told them three parables about...
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Asking/Responding
Photo Credit: Renato Ganoza via Compfight cc a homily for Proper 29C Text: Luke 23:33-43 This is a potent ending to the church year. Jesus on the cross, mocked, brought low beside two criminals. A...
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The scandal of Jesus
Jesus doesn’t force us to believe. Jesus doesn’t want us to work on the earnestness of our belief: just believe harder – believe more – believe right: to force us to get it. Jesus gives us signs and...
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The scandalous character of ministry
The Lectionary did us no favors by jumping into Luke at chapter 7, skipping what I think are the two most important chapters in the whole gospel in 5 and 6. Smack in between the calling of disciples...
View ArticleYou want me to throw what into the sea? (Eating Scripture)
For the last two and a half chapters in the gospel we call Luke, Jesus has been building up this teaching on faithfulness and action. It began with the crowd when he told them three parables about...
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Asking/Responding
Photo Credit: Renato Ganoza via Compfight cc a homily for Proper 29C Text: Luke 23:33-43 This is a potent ending to the church year. Jesus on the cross, mocked, brought low beside two criminals. A...
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The scandal of Jesus
Jesus doesn’t force us to believe. Jesus doesn’t want us to work on the earnestness of our belief: just believe harder – believe more – believe right: to force us to get it. Jesus gives us signs and...
View ArticleJesus’s Life Was Always In Danger
For SundaySecond Sunday after PentecostProper 5B Collect O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may...
View ArticleWanting to burn it all down
When followers of Jesus lose their way—then and now—what are we supposed to do? What is our work in the world? Discipleship NowProper 8C | Luke 9:51-62 When we last saw Jesus, he was freeing a man...
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Shifting Perspective
Jesus invites his disciples to look beyond the power, the expectations, and the culture to see what God is doing. Photo by Sebastian Pociecha on Unsplash How Jesus invites us into a new way of...
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Apostleship as the answerProper 6A | Matthew 9:35-10:8(9-23) Last week, we read about Jesus calling Matthew to be a disciple. And then he brings him along to eat with tax collectors and sinners....
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