Isaiah 43:1-7; Psalm 29; Acts 8:14-17; Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 You are mine There is an adorable meme going around Facebook that has a...

Isaiah 60:1-6; Psalm 72:1-7,10-14; Ephesians 3:1-12; Matthew 2:1-12 For the Sundays of Advent and Christmas we observed the three kings,...

Isaiah 61:10-62:3; Galatians 3:23-25; 4:4-7; John 1:1-18 Life itself has come into being through Jesus, the Christ. He is life which is...

Merry Christmas! This little piece of Luke’s Gospel – the prelude to Jesus’ birth – is often overlooked. Jesus was born in a barn,...

I have always loved, loved, loved the hymn we just sang: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. The lovely, almost haunting melody is one that...

Hey, can you remind me where Jesus was born? Stable, barn…some people think that he may have even been born in a cave, which is where...

Micah 5:2-5a; Psalm 80:1-7; Hebrews 10:5-10; Luke 1:39-45 (46-55) God is on the move! We have heard this phrase many times before. The...

Zephaniah 3:14-20; Canticle 9; Philippians 4:4-7; Luke 3:7-18 The exultancy of the first readings today shatters any gloom that might...

Baruch 5:1-9; Canticle 16; Philippians 1:3-11; Luke 3:1-6 When I looked at the reading from Luke for the first time on Monday, I thought...

1 Samuel 1:4-20; 1 Samuel 2:1-10; Hebrews 10:11-14 (15-18) 19-25; Mark 13:1-8 What liturgical season begins two weeks from today? Right,...

Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17; Psalm 127; Hebrews 9:24-28; Mark 12:38-44 I don’t think any of us would deny that we live in a world of anxiety. And...

Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9; Psalm 24; Revelation 21:1-6a; John 11:32-44 Today we celebrate the Feast of All Saints, one of the five pillar...

Job 42:1-6, 10-17; Psalm 34:1-8; Hebrews 7:23-28; Mark 10:46-52 What does it mean to truly see? We hear and look a lot but do we see?...

Job 38:1-7; Psalm 104:1-9, 25, 37b; Hebrews 5:1-10; Mark 10:35-45 If we look at all the readings in total today, they seem a bit like a...

Job 23:1-9, 16-17; Psalm 22:1-15; Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-31 We really have two types of confession in our tradition: a confession of...

Job 1:1; 2:1-10; Psalm 26; Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12; Mark 10:2-16 There was a movie, I can’t remember which, where a young boy has become an...

A preacher's little girl inquired, "Daddy, I notice every Sunday morning when you first come to the pulpit to preach, you bow your head....

The Disciples are in a bit of a crisis. Last week they thought they had things right. They had been sitting at the feet of Jesus for...

Proverbs 1:20-33; James 3:1-12; Wisdom 7:26–8:1; Mark 8:27-38 My brother, Mark, and I have a kind of tradition. Each year, on our...

I am reading a book by Will Willimon, a retired Methodist bishop, called Why, Jesus? And he has titles for Jesus like Preacher, Vagabond,...