Time after Pentecost

The Encroaching Kingdom

Year B Ezekiel 17:22-24 Psalm 92:1-4,11-14 2 Corinthians 5:6-10, 14-17 Mark 4:26-34 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… When you buy a house…  it’s important to know where the property lines are…  where the boundaries are…  ] that way…  if there’s any question about just where the fence separates the two properties…  if...

Out of His Mind

Year B Genesis 3:8-15 Psalm 130 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 Mark 3:20-35 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… Sometimes…  people we know…  will think that we’ve lost our mind…  in a S4 episode of Friends…  Phoebe accuses Ross…  of being completely out of his mind…  after he proposes playing a quiz game to settle...

Embracing Sabbath’s Sacred Rhythm

Year B Deuteronomy 5:12-15 Psalm 81:1-10 2 Corinthians 4:5-12 Mark 2:23-3:6 May the words of my mouth O God…  speak your truth… There is a sacred rhythm to Sabbath… a sacred rhythm that is gift…  Sabbath is not simply a day off…  not necessarily a day to grill some brats and have a cold one…  it’s a day...

Whose Face Do We See?

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...

The Boundless Inner Circle

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...