Year A Exodus 33:12-23 Psalm 99 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 Matthew 22:15-22 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… In today’s reading from Exodus… Moses is fretful… he wants God to reassure him… that God will accompany him and the Jewish people as they sojourn… it echoes some of the fear in recent passages… that...
Year A Isaiah 56:1,6-8 Psalm 67 Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32 Matthew 15:10-28 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Almost all of you know… that I grew up Jewish… and I was keenly aware of being in a minority… televangelists told me that if I didn’t believe… I’d burn in hell… a classmate in second...
Year A Genesis 28:10-19a Psalm 139: 1-11, 22-23 Romans 8:12-25 Matthew 13:24-30,36-43 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… I struggle… I struggle making some decisions… even though my Myers Briggs personality test indicates that I can make decisions quickly… I’m an INFJ… my human mind interprets data… too often...
Year A Genesis 25:19-34 Psalm 119:105-112 Romans 8:1-11 Matthew 13:1-9,18-23 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… We all know the story of Jacob and Esau… that as the firstborn son… Esau would have inherited two-thirds of Isaac’s estate… but he sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of lentil stew and...
The church calendar describes two periods of ordinary time: one begins on the day after the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord (the end of the Christmas season) and ends on the day before Ash Wednesday. The other began (this year) on May 29, the Monday after Pentecost (the conclusion of Eastertide) and...