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...
Year C Daniel 12:1-3 Psalm 16 Hebrews 10:11-14, 19-25 Mark 13:1-8 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… “Grandmother, what big eyes you have!”“The better to see you with, my dear.”“And Grandmother, what big teeth you have!”“All the better to eat you up with.”And the wolf ate Little Red Riding Hood… We just heard...
Year B Wisdom 3:1-9 Psalm 146 Revelation 21:1-6a John 11:32-44 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… I only recently became aware of something called a “mash-up”… but apparently they’ve been around for a long time… friends of ours invited Joel and me over to see a movie that only someone with a vivid...
Year B 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… The Protestant Reformation is said to have begun when German monk Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses onto the door of the Wittenberg Church on October 31, 1517… and the sound of that...
Year B Jeremiah 31:7-9 Psalm 126 Hebrews 7:23-28 Mark 10:46-52 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Do you remember in English class… ever having to do an assignment called Compare and Contrast… where you’d take two paragraphs… or poems… or novels… and describe how they’re similar… but also how...