My sermon for this week, “What I Can’t Do Without My Neighbor: When I’m Half-Dead,” is posted here on Medium. Also, video from our church’s livecast is here.
As I continue to study the text (Good Samaritan parable) for this Sunday, N.T. Wright’s take (Jesus and the Victory of God) on it is as challenging as it is helpful. He sees the parable as Jesus’ way of teaching the lawyer–and Israel–to take a completely new and different view of what it means to be […]
Timely words from N.T. Wright’s Luke for Everyone re the Good Samaritan parable for Sunday’s gospel text: “No church, no Christian, can remain content with easy definitions which allow us to watch most of the world lying half-dead in the road. Today’s preachers, and today’s defenders of the gospel, must find fresh ways of telling […]
Even though the “Good Samaritan” story is familiar and still oft referenced in our culture and world, I’m glad to see that it’s in the lectionary for this Sunday. It’s always timely but certainly so as religious folks are having so much trouble identifying who their neighbors are and, if doing so, showing them mercy. […]
Message Manuscript for “Burdens Carried Here” Galatians 1:1-16 Delivered to Church for the Highlands Sunday, July 7, 2019 Jinny and I ran the Firecracker 5K this past week on July 4. Our kids ran in the children’s part of it a long time ago but we had not ever run it. Running a 5K […]
“The Christian, however, must bear the burden of a brother. He must suffer and endure the brother. It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together “If God is our father, the church is our mother.” […]
Message Manuscript for “Free to Produce” Delivered to Church for the Highlands Sunday, June 30, 2019 We had a great vacation but it’s always good to come home, especially when the weather is better here than in some of the places we visited. The day we came home, temperatures rose to 114 degrees Fahrenheit in […]
This Sunday, July 7, our church is having an Agape Meal, the first of what may become a regular event for the first Sunday of each month. Our tradition has been to have Communion on the first Sunday of each month, which we will continue this Sunday but with the addition of the meal and […]
*In response to the picture of a Salvadoran father and his daughter washed up on the Rio Grande Longing for freedom Just on the other side Oppression and hopelessness How deep can the water be A touch to St Christopher Thoughts for her, what she can be Child to carry Stay and die Swim and […]
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