This is an older Ash Wednesday homily re-posted by request. Blessed Lent to you all. Earlier this week, as the church secretary was preparing to send out information on our Lenten activities, she came to my office and said, “What’s the word for what you do with the ashes?” It made me pause a moment.…
Transfiguration C Exodus 34:29-35 Luke 9:28-43 In the Gospel text for today Jesus goes up on the mountain to pray. Not only might this be interesting to those of us who live in the midst of such beautiful mountains but there are also many interesting things that happen on the tops of mountains in the…
Baptism of Our Lord Year C Isaiah 43:1-7 Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 One of the interesting things I noticed when I became a Lutheran some years ago was the amount of time people spent talking about baptism. ‘Remember your baptism’ was a phrase unfamiliar to me but commonly on the lips of the Lutheran pastors I…
Christmas 2C John 1:1-18 In the beginning…that wonderful ‘once upon a time’ sounding phrase from God. Makes us think that we are going to get to hear a great story! We hear In the Beginning and we think of that primeval time when God created land and sea and sun and…
Christmas 2C Luke 2:41-52, Matthew 1:1-17 Perhaps the single most boring part of the gospels is the ancestry list in the first chapter of Matthew. The only challenger to this title of Most Boring might be the first few verses of Luke which recite nearly the exact same thing once again. At least Matthew did…
Shepherdess Writes 