Luke 17:5-10 It has been blooming from a crack in my driveway all summer long. I did not plant it there, of course, but I have often planted petunias along the driveway side of my house just a few feet away. Even so, it is not the sort of plant which survives the winter — …
Month: September 2019
“Lazarus” at My Front Door…
Luke 16:19-31 I can still picture my dad leaning back in his chair with his hands tented together in that philosophical pose he took from time to time. I smiled then and still do to remember him so, knowing that whenever those fingers came together in that way he was about to say something he …
Living Our Faith In This Messy World
Luke 16:1-13 Dear Friends, As I write this week I realize that I am only at the beginning of my thinking about this difficult parable. These past days have been full of meetings and hospital calls and as the week drew to a close I came down with a nasty bug which, I don’t doubt, …
Who is the Lost One?
Luke 15:1-10 I have reflected on the words of Luke in chapter 15 countless times. To be sure, here are links here to two other times I have offered thoughts on these very familiar words. Getting Lost and Getting Found: Joy in the Presence of the Angels! and Lost and Found This time through, I …
Paul’s Pastoral Heart: Philemon, Onesimus, and More…
Philemon 1-21 I got drawn into the letter to Philemon this week, in part because its place in our readings next Sunday offers us the chance to reflect on an entire book of the Bible. Unlike Paul’s other letters, its succinctness allows us to focus on one or two important things and to wonder together …