“Good Friday is the day you can do nothing. Bewailing and lamenting your manifold sins does not in itself make up for them. Scouring your soul in a frenzy of spring cleaning only sterilizes it; it does not give it life. On Good Friday, finally, we are all, mourners and mockers alike, reduced to the…
Lent Wednesday March 20 2013 Have you ever thought to yourself: if I could just speak directly to Jesus, face to face, I would know what I should do with my life? I know I have. Many of us have probably wished we could find all the answers to our life questions in scripture. I’ve…
Sermon in part. This week’s sermon is a dialog with the congregation about psalm 63 and is only partially posted here for obvious reasons. Lent 3C Isaiah 55:1-9 Psalm 63:1-8 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 Luke 13:1-9 Oh say, poet, what you do? I praise. But what about the deadly and monstrous? How do you keep going,…
Lent 2C Philippians 3:17-4:1 Luke 13:31-35 I have always thought that Lent was an odd season. I grew up in a church that had little to no observation of this purple season and did not really come to know it as an important part of the church year until I was an adult. It is full…
Epiphany 2C John 2:1-11 In the years well before I became a pastor, I sometimes worked as a wedding photographer. I didn’t do it very often because while I love weddings, it was definitely not my favorite thing to photograph. Truth is, you could not pay me enough to photograph another one! There is always…
Shepherdess Writes 