Year B: Day of Pentecost
The Witness of Scripture: The ancient instruction book of the church, Didache, says “Two ways there are, one of Life and one of Death, and there is a great difference between the two ways.” Didache; VI, 15) Most of us don’t think of church, especially worship, as being a “life or death” matter. However, […]
Read MoreYear B – Seventh Sunday of Easter
The Introduction: The Hispanic writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, wrote exquisite novels – One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera and others – that express the importance of remembering. Marquez shows us that sometimes people are trapped in the past, living out of nostalgia. But he also shows […]
Read MoreYear B - Sixth Sunday of Easter
The Witness of Scripture: This morning we come to one of the most important texts in all of the Bible. It marks the turning point in the early church and most certainly the book of Acts. Interestingly enough, we are not as familiar with this text as we are others. Perhaps it’s because this experience […]
Read MoreYear B - Fifth Sunday of Easter
I take as my text today the simple affirmation from the Epistle reading, “God is love.” Of course, that’s not everything that can be said about God, otherwise I would have wasted years in seminary. But sometimes, we need to say what’s important in words as short and succinct as possible. I think that’s why […]
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