Last Sunday of Pentecost Before Christ the King Year C Around this same time every year, I am struck by all the wonderful marks of the changing season. Leaves turning colors. Crows cawing at me in the parking lot. People talking about getting pecans for holiday baking. The air is crisp and cool. How big…
Pentecost 25C Job 19:23-27a Luke 20:27-38 I love the cover of this week’s bulletin. It is a simple image with simple phrase; simple but so full of meaning. For to him, all of them are alive! [the image to the right is NOT the image from the bulletin. at publish, I could not get a…
All Saints C Ephesians 1:11-23, Luke 6:20-31 Jesus is being followed around by a large crowd of people and in today’s gospel text he is speaking to his disciples in front of this group. He begins with: Blessed are the cheesemakers! Ok, not really, but whenever I read this text, that’s what I think of.…
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…
Shepherdess Writes 