Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Matthew 5:21-37 “We left violence and war behind us. We wanted to live a peaceful life.” (Daily Chronicle, February 4/5, 2017, p. 10) These words of Awni Alkarzon, director of international recruitment at Northern Illinois University, reflect the choices of countless people who have taken or would give anything to take the risk …
Tag: Epiphany 6A
Choosing Life
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 I approach this piece of Moses’s sermon today with joy and with trepidation, with deep certainty and with profound questions all at the same time. For on the one hand, we know that it is so. Our choices do matter. They shape our every day. On the other hand? Well, I know that so very much has …