I Corinthians 1:18-25 John 2:13-22 This is surely one of those weeks when the lessons not only compliment one another, they deepen and expand our understanding of their meaning. For in the one we hear Jesus saying there is a new, another way, which will find its truest form in his death and resurrection. And …
Month: February 2021
Dying and Living with Arms Open Wide…
Mark 8:31-38 It’s a small memory, this one, and fleeting, to be sure. I remember it being when I was 6 or 7 when I would be playing with my sisters and neighborhood children in the side yard of our house on South 3rd Street. And this surely is a sign of our sheltered life …
God’s Presence In This Wilderness Now…
Mark 1:9-14 Many a February on the first Sunday in Lent, I have found myself speaking of ‘wilderness.’ And while there have certainly been other seasons which deepened my understanding of ‘untamed places’ and ‘wild beasts which threaten,’ I can think of no other season quite like this where the experience of ‘wilderness’ has been …
Light and Mystery and Jesus and Peter on the Mountaintop
Mark 9:2-9 Peter is so afraid that his first impulse is to start building things? Or is he so overwhelmed by what is before him that all he can think to do to try to regain some semblance of control is to keep busy? Or is actually a genuine impulse to be hospitable, or to …