Better Days Ahead
First Sunday in Advent: Old Testament, Isaiah 2:1-5 Isaiah 2:1-5 God calls and His calling is always clear. In our Old Testament reading for the week God makes a call that His people should...
Your Word Is...
Proper 29: Gospel, Luke 23:27-43 Luke 23:27-43 “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43). Sweet words indeed. But in the context of the event during which they are spoken … not so nice. The event, that is. The darkness of the event makes the...
Who?
Proper 29: Epistle, Colossians 1:13-20 Colossians 1:13-20 Many years ago I heard a prominent American pastor lament that the church was publishing myriads of books on many topics and a lamentable few on Jesus Christ. It causes some reflection as I look at my own bookshelf and see the titles...
How Can It Be?
Proper 29: Old Testament, Malachi 3:13-18 Malachi 3:13-18 The gospel doesn’t only live in the New Testament. So many make the mistake of thinking the Old Testament is law, law...
Close to the Source
Proper 28: Gospel, Luke 21:5-28 Luke 21:5-28 Luke 21 is one of a group of passages across the gospels that point to those days which usher in...
An Everyday Book
Proper 28: Epistle, 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Funny it is that many consider the Bible a book of myths, stories, tales, and instruction far away from the steps we leave...
Little More to Say
Proper 28: Old Testament, Malachi 4:1-6 Malachi 4:1-6 The final chapter of our Old Testament begins in a blaze. Read just the first verse. My brief comments focus on that very beginning of...
Blessed
All Saints (Observed): Gospel, Matthew 5:1-12 Matthew 5:1-12 Blessed. It’s a word found myriads of times throughout the Scriptures. We tend to look at it mostly from the perspective of happiness. If...
But I Can't Sing A Lick
All Saints (Observed): Psalm, Psalm 149 Psalm 149 If there is an anxiety in the people of God about heaven I think this may be it: people are concerned that they aren’t good singers. And heaven is portrayed as a...
Salvation Is Big
All Saints (Observed): First Reading, Revelation 7:9-17 Revelation 7:9-17 The language that John, the beloved, uses at the beginning of chapter seven rings with the depth of so much of what he attempts to write elsewhere. Remember, this is the Revelation of Jesus...
