Year C Micah 5:2-5a Canticle 15 Hebrews 10:5-10 Luke 1:39-45 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… I have no business preaching today… I’m a man… and while the author of this Gospel is also a man… this is a story about women… in one of my seminary textbooks… the Women’s Bible Commentary … ...
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...
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...