Year A Acts 7:55-60 Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 1 Peter 2:2-10 John 14:1-14 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… In the very first line of this morning’s Gospel… Jesus says… Do not let your hearts be troubled… but many of our hearts have been troubled… and not just only this morning… for some of...
Year A Acts 2:14a,22-32 Psalm 16 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Some people think… that when someone is ordained… they become theologically certain about all things… but for me… I’ve become more willing to wrestle with some kinds of uncertainty… I’m more willing to let the wind...
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...
Year A Isaiah 35:1-10 Canticle 15 James 5:7-10 Matthew 11:2-11 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… When there’s going to be a space launch… like Thursday’s Falcon 9 rocket… which deployed an array of low-Earth orbit satellites… there are literally hundreds… if not thousands of variables which must be seamlessly integrated and precisely...
Year C Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 46 Romans 3:19-28 John 8:31-36May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Honey bees live together in large… well-organized family groups… they are social insects… not solitary ones… and because of that… they engage in a variety of specialized tasks not practiced by the thousands of the solitary ones… complex...