Year C Zephaniah 3:14-20 Canticle 9 Philippians 4:4-7 Luke 3:7-18 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Have you ever had the experience… of learning about something… of being confident that you were right… and acting on that knowledge… of making decisions perhaps even critical decisions based on what you knew… only to find...
Year C Malachi 3:1-4 Canticle 16 (Luke 1:68-79) Philippians 1:3-11 Luke 3:1-6 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… When Dwight D. Eisenhower was President of the United States… and John Patterson the governor of Alabama… when J. Edgar Hoover served as the omnipotent autocrat of the FBI… and Billy Graham and Norman Vincent...
When I was in seminary, we learned how to become detectives as it related to scripture. We were taught to ask questions about the author’s intended message, and to gain insights into how his own readers would have heard and understood it. And generally speaking, we explored the texts according to five categories, or...
Year C Jeremiah 33:14-16 Psalm 25:1-9 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 Luke 21:25-36 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… If I had to guess, I’d say that most of you have seen the movie Forrest Gump… or Saving Private Ryan… or Slumdog Millionaire… or perhaps even Annie Hall… or Gandhi… or one of those other...
Year C Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 Psalm 93 Revelation 1:4b-8 John 18:33-37 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… The Gospel is hard… the Gospel is difficult… the Gospel is so totally at odds with our American experience that fitting it into our lives may feel like forcing a square peg...