Year B Acts 4:5-12 Psalm 23 1 John 3:16-24 John 10:11-18 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… The Sadducees are concerned… not only have another 5,000 people come to trust Jesus… but they’re responsible for making sure large crowds don’t form… they know the Romans don’t ignore such crowds… and Peter and John...
Year B Acts 3:12-19 Psalm 4 1 John 3:1-7 Luke 24:36b-48 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… The electromagnetic spectrum describes many different kinds of energy and light… including light the human eye cannot see… in fact… most of the light in the universe is invisible to our eyes… the light we can...
Year B Isaiah 25:6-9 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Mark 16:1-8 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… There’s a 2013 movie called Elysium… which takes place 130 years in the future… when humanity is sharply divided between two classes of people… those who live a hardscrabble existence in Earth’s ruined cities… where...
Year A Jeremiah 31:1-6 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Acts 10:34-43 John 20:1-18 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… I spoke some last evening about being reminded that the stories which have come down to us… stories which remind us that we are freed from all that enslaves us… and I want to say something...
Easter will soon be upon us. We have about another week to think about the ways we can continue to turn our few good deeds into mountains of them, and turn our many sins into just some small pebbles. This is challenging work. It’s challenging for us to own up to our faults when...