Matthew 17:1-9 I always feel inadequate when it comes time to preach on the Transfiguration every year. I expect that’s because the experience of Peter, James and John on that mountaintop with Jesus is so far afield from anything I have ever known. Looking back, it seems that most of what I have offered were just …
Month: February 2014
Being Perfect
Matthew 5:38-48 I remember it like it was yesterday. I was six years old and about to enter the first grade. Now remember this was back when kindergarten was half-days and was more about snacks and play time and naps than academic advancement. And yes, it was before the days of ‘Sesame Street’ where little …
Choosing Life
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 I approach this piece of Moses’s sermon today with joy and with trepidation, with deep certainty and with profound questions all at the same time. For on the one hand, we know that it is so. Our choices do matter. They shape our every day. On the other hand? Well, I know that so very much has …
You are the Salt of the Earth
Matthew 5:13-20 “You are the salt of the earth…” (Matthew 5:13) I spent a good part of this past snowy Saturday morning reading about salt. One would not think there would be so much to learn about salt, but apparently there is. In fact, it seems that one can write a whole history of the world just by …