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…
Today (9/29) was St Michael and All Angels festival Sunday. I believe it is sometimes called Michaelmass. Instead of doing a full sermon manuscript for today I did a conversational sermon. Or at least I think that’s the best name for it. We had an open discussion about angels during the sermon period and…
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…
Shepherdess Writes 