“God-Power!” – John 15:1-8 (Year B, 5th Sunday After Easter)
Read the Lectionary Texts If you are an atheist – or an agnostic – or a doubter – or one who struggles with questions like, “How can you believe [READ MORE]
“Runaway Children” – Psalm 23 and John 10:11-18 (Year B, Fourth Sunday of Easter)
Read the Lectionary Texts Have you ever run away from home? I have. Many times when I was a kid. Upset about some situation, I announced to my mother that [READ MORE]
“The Grammar of Easter”, Acts 3:1-19 (Year B, Third Sunday of Easter)
Read the Lectionary Texts Note: The Lectionary text begins in Acts 3:12 but I am adding the preceding verses from Acts 3:1 for clarity Some of you may remember going [READ MORE]
“There Was Something About the Hands” – John 20:19-31 (Year B, Second Sunday of Easter)
Read the Lectionary Text The Bible invites us to linger here at Easter. To pause, and take some time. To take a broad look at the resurrection experience of the [READ MORE]
“Only God” – Mark 16:1-8 (Year B, Easter Sunday)
Read the Easter Text They had done everything they could. Do you remember how these disciples of Jesus had arranged the parade last Sunday? Throwing their cloaks on the [READ MORE]
“Were You There?” – Mark 11:1-11 (Year B, Palm Sunday)
Read the Lectionary Text We can only imagine what Jesus saw as the donkey upon which he was riding crested the Mt. of Olives just east of the city of [READ MORE]
“It Takes a Dying…” – John 12:20-33 (Year B, the Fifth Sunday in Lent)
Read the Lectionary Texts John tells us some Greeks wanted to see Jesus. This may seem an insignificant detail to you and me living two-thousand years removed from the [READ MORE]
“A Snake in the Grace” – John 3:14-21 (Year B, the Fourth Sunday in Lent)
Read the Lectionary Texts A few weeks after my wife and I moved into a new house we had a surprise visitor. We were returning home from running some errands. [READ MORE]
“As the Table Turns”, John 2:13-22 (Year B, the Third Sunday in Lent)
Read the Lectionary Texts If, during this season of Lent, you're asking the question, "Why was Jesus executed?" here is what the gospelwriters indicate is the precipitating cause. While there are [READ MORE]
“Struck by Grace” – 8:31-38 (Year B, the Second Sunday in Lent)
Read the Lectionary Texts During this Lenten season, we are walking with Jesus toward the cross. As he makes his way through the towns and villages of Galilee, he [READ MORE]
“Into the Desert”, Mark 1:9-15 (Year B, the First Sunday in Lent)
Read the Lectionary Texts Here we are on the first Sunday in the season of Lent. From the earliest days of the Christian Church, this 40-day period of time before [READ MORE]
“Transfiguration Mountain” – Mark 9:2-9 (Year B, Transfiguration Sunday)
Read the Lectionary Texts Back to reality. That’s what everyone was saying that day long ago when we flew home after a great family vacation to Disney World. My wife [READ MORE]
“Becoming Unbelievers”, Mark 1:29-39 (Year B, the Fifth Sunday After Epiphany)
Read the Lectionary Texts It was a hot and humid Saturday afternoon, typical of August in Massachusetts. The bride and groom, kneeling before the altar, were soaked in sweat and [READ MORE]
The Talking Frog
My good friend Bob Puckett was going on his usual evening walk, breathlessly trying to keep up with his dog Zany. Bob was enjoying the cool night air when suddenly, he [READ MORE]
“A NEW Teaching!” – Mark 1:21-28 (Year B, the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany)
Read the Lectionary Texts Those of us who grew up in the church and have come to the place in life where the stories of our faith have become kind [READ MORE]
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