Year A Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 46 Romans 3:19-28 John 8:31-36 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Today’s passage from Jeremiah is one of my favorites… it talks about how God will make a new covenant with the House of Israel… the former one… made with their ancestors… those whom God brought out of...
Year A Exodus 33:12-23 Psalm 99 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 Matthew 22:15-22 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… In today’s reading from Exodus… Moses is fretful… he wants God to reassure him… that God will accompany him and the Jewish people as they sojourn… it echoes some of the fear in recent passages… that...
Year A Exodus 32:1-14 Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23 Philippians 4:1-9 Matthew 22:1-14 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… My brother carries a gun… no… not everywhere he goes… only when he provides security at a Washington, D.C. area synagogue… I’m not sure when he took firearm training… and got a gun license… and began...
Year A Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 Psalm 19 Philippians 3:4b-14 Matthew 21:33-46 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… The writers of Exodus were familiar with various kinds of legal documents… they knew about many of the different forms used in and around the Near East… and one of them was the suzerain-vassal treaty...
Early one sultry Saturday morning in August, when I was ten years old, my mom and dad packed up my brother and me in the car, and we set off from our home in River Edge, NJ for Lake Hopatcong, which sits about forty miles west of River Edge, mostly along and a little...