Ezekiel 37:1-14 John 11:1-45 I do hope my reflection here does not trivialize the power of the images before us now as we find ourselves in a valley of dry bones suddenly re-assembled and infused with breath once more and in the crowd looking on as Jesus’ beloved friend, Lazarus — dead these four days …
Month: March 2017
Jesus and the Man Blind From Birth
John 9:1-41 Much like last week we have before us a story which is rich and powerful and full and lengthy. As a result there are a number of promising directions one might take as one digs into it including: Whether (or not) God punishes for sin — and specifically whether one’s physical ailments or …
Jesus and the Samaritans
John 4:5-42 There is so very much richness for us in the familiar story of Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well. In fact, there is just plain so much happening in this lengthy account that it is easy to get distracted before one comes to the larger point or final conclusion of …
Wondering About Nicodemus…
John 3:1-17 It is so that I have been called upon to preach on this piece of John’s Gospel many times before and so it is with some effort this time through to come up with a new way ‘in’ to a very familiar story. And so I am allowing myself to begin by simply …