Matthew 21:33-46 On Monday morning we left the house early. I was headed off to a conference and my mother decided to tag along to visit her sister for a couple of days. (If you don’t know this yet, my mother moved in with me on Labor Day. No doubt, that is the subject of …
Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32 Matthew 21:23-32 So much time has passed since then. Even so, I still offer this story with no small measure of pain. We stood around her casket on a rainy Christmas Eve forty years ago. It was just my mother and dad, my three sisters, my grandfather, and me. There was no visitation for receiving …
Matthew 20:1-16 I was out on my early morning walk today. It had rained most of yesterday, and so there were still night-crawlers on the pavement — forced out of their underground homes. I never see a night-crawler on the ground without being taken back to when I was 10 or 11 years old and …
John 3:13-17 You knew it, too, of course, the reference above. Oh yes, we know it by heart, those of us who have followed this path of faith. Indeed, we know it so well I expect that we hardly pause to take in its import much of the time. But stand still in this with me …