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Matthew 25:1-13
Proper 27A
[…] existence: his return. We don’t know when it will be, and it will likely feel like it is delayed. How very true that must have felt to Matthew’s original audience. Forty years after Jesus’s death, among people who thought it would be in their lifetime. Now, two thousand years later, we may feel some […]
Symposium 2013: The Giving of Good Gifts
From the closing communion service of the Symposium on Worship, 2013.
Psalm 15
Epiphany 4A
[…] to good people. What can David mean then? Well, think about the way Jesus ended the Sermon on the Mount. The opening verses of that Sermon ( Matthew 5:1-13) sound very much like Psalm 15, don’t they? Then in Matthew 7:24 Jesus sums up everything he taught about kingdom living by saying, “Therefore, everyone […]
James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a
Proper 20B
[…] lives a good life. This reminds us of James’ previous words about true faith in chapter 2, and it echoes Jesus’ stern words about bearing fruit in Matthew 7:15ff. To teachers/preachers who prided themselves on big words, fluent sentences, careful arguments, and brilliant reasoning, James says, “That’s not real wisdom.” This was a paradigm […]
Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19
Easter 3A
[…] prayed. Simple, because he didn’t let his theology get in the way of the most important part of thanksgiving. That’s exactly what Jesus says to us in Matthew 7. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who […]
Heidelberg Catechism
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