Year A – Reign of Christ – Twenty Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
INTRODUCTION With celebrities in movies and on television, you can go to the Internet and find pictures of them in various roles and at different stages of their lives. For example, the British actor Roddy McDowall was well-known in the 1940s as a child star in My Friend Flicka and Lassie Come Home. He survived […]
Read MoreYear A – Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost
INTRODUCTION John Milton was one of the best-known poets in England in the seventeenth century. He also was a strong advocate of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. He was a devout Protestant Christian. Milton began losing his sight when he was in his early forties, and he was totally blind by […]
Read MoreYear A – Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost
Louisa is a great grandmother who is Rapturous — with a Capital “R.” She eagerly awaits the end of her earthly life, confident this will also be the end of life as we know it for all Christians before the Great Tribulation begins. She writes “Rapturously” about swooshing through the air with the redeemed of […]
Read MoreYear A – Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost
INTRODUCTION A barefoot, freckle-faced, blue-eyed boy named Dooley Barlowe was wearing dirty overalls when he showed up Tim Kavanagh’s door. Dooley was with his grandpa who the janitor at the church where Tim was better known as Father Tim, the Episcopal priest. Dooley was an eleven-year-old semi-orphan who used mild “cussin’” and backwoods English. But, […]
Read MoreYear A – Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
If you are looking for Godly counsel, the place to begin is the book of Psalms. Here one finds open access to the Almighty along with a mirror that reflects both the heights of human aspirations and depths of mortal depravity. The Psalms were Israel’s hymnal and prayer book. The Psalms are a diverse collection […]
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