Year B – Advent 4 (A 7-Week Advent) Isaiah 64:1-9 Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 13:24-37 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Joel and I recently saw… just happened to come across… four episodes of what Netflix calls a Limited Series… the series is based on a book by Anthony Doerr… ...
Year C Malachi 4:1-2a Psalm 98 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Luke 21:5-19May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… According to The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Third Edition)… the word eschatology first appeared in English in the 19th century… and it refers to the doctrine of last things… that is… the ultimate destiny of...
Year A Daniel 7:1-3,15-18 Psalm 149 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17 Luke 20:27-38May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Can God create a rock so heavy… that God could not lift it… this question is a convoluted contradiction about divine omnipotence… about being all-potent… because if God can create a rock that God cannot lift… ...
When I was growing up, there were certain things –– like clothing –– that you just couldn’t buy on Sunday. Entire sections of department stores were simply roped off. And retailers respected the rhythms of the seasons –– you never saw Christmas displays or heard Christmas music or read Christmas newspaper ads until after Thanksgiving...