Year A – The Seventh Sunday after Epiphany
A couple of months ago, my wife Tracy and I did something that we’d never done before; something we never thought we’d do; something we never considered doing before and may not ever do again. For this exciting and potentially life changing event, Tracy and I bought…Powerball tickets! I am quite sure that a shudder […]
Read MoreYear A – The Sixth Sunday after Epiphany
As a very “green” youth minister in the early 90s, I often struggled with my efforts to deal equally with all the students in our care. The incredibly diverse circumstances of this group of students made my goal of equality that much more challenging. Out of about 40 moderately-to-very active students, almost all came from […]
Read MoreYear A – The Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
The prophets of the Old Testament battled constantly with kings, and peoples, and entire nations in an effort to communicate the message of God to the people who most needed to hear it, and follow it. We think of those that they struggled to reach as “stiff-necked” people, as God calls them in the Exodus. […]
Read MoreYear A – The Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
Like most children, I developed the unique art of selective hearing. I contracted the disease that we will call Sports-itis (i.e., addiction to sports) at an extremely young age, and habitually burrowed myself in front of the television at the sight of any football game. When entering into this realm, Sports-itis would cause me to […]
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