Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem which was first published in 1889… entitled The Ballad of East and West. Although I don’t remember it ever being read to me, I do remember from childhood the first line… it goes “East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” I wonder if I...
Year BExodus 16:2-4,9-15Psalm 78:23-29Ephesians 4:1-16John 6:24-35 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Think for a moment about the sandy Sahara Desert… it’s the third largest desert on Earth… if it was a square… it would measure 1,897 miles on each side… that’s a lot of desert… it’s just a...
Year B2 Kings 4:42-44Psalm 145:10-19Ephesians 3:14-21John 6:1-21 May the words of my mouth, O God, speak your truth… The Passover… the festival of the Jews was near… and why is Passover relevant in this story… because it reminds us that on the night of the last plague in Egypt… the Angel of Death passed...
Year B Jeremiah 23:1-6 Psalm 23 Ephesians 2:11-22 Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 May the words of my mouth, O God, speak your truth… Today Jeremiah speaks God’s words and says… Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture… and you know things are getting really bad when God starts off...
Year B Amos 7:7-15 Psalm 85:8-13 Ephesians 1:3-14 Mark 6:14-29 May the words of my mouth, O God, speak your truth… In the verses just prior to today’s passage from the prophet Amos… God pronounces a litany of indictments against an indulgent society… in which the powerful and wealthy are accused of arrogance and...