Year A – Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Suppose you go to the mailbox tomorrow to pick up your mail. The black mailbox is crammed full. You pull the mail out and begin to walk back to your house, sorting it as you go. There is a bill from Belk. A plea from the Girl Scouts. There is a notice that your tags […]
Read MoreYear A – Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
It all began because Jesus’ critics were concerned. Furious, really. Jesus was calling people to follow him—disciples who did not even know the law. Newcomers. They had no unearthly idea how to observe the Sabbath. And so Pharisees, sometimes the Sadducees, sometimes the Essenes came with folded hands. They said: “These people, have no standing […]
Read MoreYear A – Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
When Matthew wrote his book some time around 60AD the church’s eyewitnesses who knew Jesus were dying out one by one. So Matthew wanted to make sure that this new generation would know the story that had transformed his life and so many others. Our parable today comes at mid-point in Matthew’s 28 chapters. Matthew […]
Read MoreYear A – Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
On this July Sunday, still fresh from our July 4th holiday, I want to talk about a July the 4th word: Freedom. The struggle to be free. The late Wayne Oates said this struggle is everybody’s journey and I think he was right. We want to be free to decide our own destiny, to express […]
Read MoreYear A – Third Sunday after Pentecost
The reporter spoke with a sense of incredulity. A woman came up to a homeless man on the streets of New York City and gave him some food to eat. She had seen the scruffy man walking along, talking to himself, and rummaging through trash cans looking for food. She went into a restaurant, purchased […]
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