Mark 1:29-39 Here is what strikes me today about this reading from Mark’s Gospel. The battle is local. It is in the home of Simon and Andrew and visits them on their front porch. And it is in nearby, neighboring towns. Indeed, one doesn’t have to travel far to witness suffering and often the despair …
Month: January 2018
Out in the Open: Casting Out Unclean Spirits
Mark 1:21-28 I think perhaps my take on this week’s Gospel reading is far too simple now. Maybe this is because I hardly know what to make of it and so I find myself settling on what little I know for sure. For this is where I wonder: What does it mean that in the …
God Always Finds a Way
Jonah 3:1-5, 10 I can’t resist spending time with Jonah this week for I found echoes of this ancient story in the exchange I had with a ‘wise beyond his years’ second grader last Sunday. First his grandmother and then his mother came to me. “Carter has a question,” they said. “We don’t know how …
This Holy Calling
1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20) John 1:43-51 It is so that I have long struggled to help people understand that pastors are not the only ones who are ‘called.’ Or to communicate in a way that people understand this reality that ‘calls’ are not always dramatic in the way we hear about with young Samuel today. …