Pentecost 22C Genesis 32:22-31 Oscar Wilde once said, “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future”. In other words, no matter how good we may be, we’ve never been perfect and no matter how many mistakes we make, we’ve got a chance, with God’s grace, to try again. There are many great…
Pentecost 20C Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4 2 Timothy 1:1-14 Luke 17:5-11 Oh, what a Sunday! Jesus is yet again sharing his cryptic advice with his disciples and telling some story about moving mulberry trees into the sea with mustard seeds and being served at the table by slaves. We also heard a part of a letter…
Pentecost 18C Luke 16:1-13 Today’s text is one of those that pastors dread. That gospel lesson can leave us wondering: what is Jesus going on about? Is he actually praising the shady wheelers and dealers? Is he actually suggesting that we should look to people who are similar to this guy, like corporate embezzlers for…
Pentecost 16C Sept 8 2013 Luke 14:25-33 In a cemetery in Hendersonville there stands a quite famous marker. It’s famous because of the writer Thomas Wolfe, although it is not his resting place the beautiful angel marks. Sometimes she’s called the Thomas Wolfe Angel or even the Look Homeward Angel because of her place in…
Pentecost 10C July 20 2013 Luke 11:1-13 Virtually every time we have a funeral or wedding at our church, there will be a non Lutheran person in attendance who will approach me with something they’ve noticed in the worship service. Most of the time, they are people who have been or are active in another…
Shepherdess Writes 