2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 “So we do not lose heart.” It is easy to lose heart, of course. The world and our experience of living within it, gives us all sorts of causes and reasons for discouragement. We experience it in our lives, in our communities, large and small, and in our congregations — this temptation …
Month: May 2015
Nicodemus and You and Me and a Group of High School Seniors: God’s Time
Ecclesiastes 3:1John 3:1-17 Next Sunday night I will be one of two preachers for our High School Baccalaureate. By then it will already have been a very long week-end. Saturday morning I will officiate at the funeral of a woman who was just my age. It was my deep privilege to walk alongside her …
These Dry Bones
Ezekiel 37:1-14 I am fortunate, I know, to know so very little of the scene which Ezekiel encountered in the vision before us now. One can only imagine the devastation which must have preceded what resulted in a valley full of dry bones. No, indeed, the closest I can come to comprehending such as this …
Not Belonging
John 17:6-19 Jesus speaks to us today of our ‘not belonging’ to this world. My guess is that most any one of us who made it to the other side of middle school has some idea of what he is talking about here. At least I know I do. Indeed, I imagine that many of …
“I Have Called You Friends…”
John 15:9-17 I got thinking about friends in these last days. Certainly because Jesus speaks of his disciples as ‘friends’ in this week’s Gospel. Maybe because last week I got to spend precious time with a couple of friends who live so far from where I do. But also because of a five minute conversation …