Year A Isaiah 44:6-8 Psalm 86:11-17 Romans 8:12-25 Matthew 13:24-30,36-43 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… so that anyone with ears… may listen… Today’s parable is most often referred to as The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds… and we’re told that The Kingdom of Heaven may be...

Year A Isaiah 55:10-13 Psalm 65:9-14 Romans 8:1-11 Matthew 13:1-9,18-23 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… Today’s reading from Isaiah… is a powerful promise from God… it speaks of water… and seed… and bread… and the rabbis understood water… as a metaphor for Torah… for God’s Word… as the...

Year A Zechariah 9:9-12 Psalm 145:8-15 Romans 7:15-25a Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… There’s an old expression that’s being used… with a new meaning… and it may even make it into the dictionary one day… it’s a meaning that comes out of this pandemic… and...

Year A Jeremiah 28:5-9 Psalm 89:1-4,15-18 Romans 6:12-23 Matthew 10:40-42 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… In today’s passage from Romans… Paul writes… The wages of sin is death… I’ve heard this shouted from the mouths and pulpits of TV evangelists… and I’ve sometimes felt threatened by it… that...

Year A Genesis 21:8-21 Psalm 69: 8-11, 18-20 Romans 6:1b-11 Matthew 10:24-39 May the words of my mouth… O God… speak your Truth… I don’t know if it’s a Jewish thing… or just an expression some of my Jewish relatives used… but whenever you hoped for something good to happen… they would say… from...