Those who know Sesame Street, know the song “One of These Things is not Like the Others.” It’s a fun way of teaching children to recognize differences and similarities, to discern patterns, and exceptions to those patterns. To learn about sizes, colors, shapes, numbers, animals, you (just about) name it. It’s not designed to...
Year A Acts 2:42-47 Psalm 23 1 Peter 2:19-25 John 10:1-10 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something… for example… someone who allows or denies access to an ancient city… or a bouncer at a nightclub… or more abstractly… some who controls access to...
Year A Acts 2:14a,36-41 Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17 1 Peter 1:17-23 Luke 24:13-35 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… M. Scott Peck’s book The Road Less Traveled… starts out with the sentence… Life is difficult… it’s a book which makes the unpleasant-sounding claim… that facing and solving our problems can be a painful process…...
Year A Acts 2:14a,22-32 Psalm 16 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Some people think… that when someone is ordained… they become theologically certain about all things… but for me… I’ve become more willing to wrestle with some kinds of uncertainty… I’m more willing to let the wind...
Year A Jeremiah 31:1-6 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Acts 10:34-43 John 20:1-18 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… I spoke some last evening about being reminded that the stories which have come down to us… stories which remind us that we are freed from all that enslaves us… and I want to say something...