Psalm 27:1, 4-9
Epiphany 3A
[…] place in China called Wuhan. We’d heard something about SARS-CoV2 and started to hear a couple words most of us were having trouble remembering or pronouncing: coronavirus, COVID-19. (When I typed this just now, the spellchecker did not flag those words. I doubt they were in my dictionary in 2020.) Still, we continued on […]
Psalm 16
Easter 2A
[…] was not an accident. This was part of the plan. This WAS the plan. Because through that death God did an end run on death. In these COVID-19 days of crisis, a lot of us are thinking a lot more about vaccines than usual—indeed, we’d all get in line tomorrow if a coronavirus vaccine […]
Romans 5:1-11
Lent 3A
[…] of some of God’s dearly beloved people’s hope. Despair, in fact, sometimes seems to reign nearly everywhere we look. Despair that we’ll ever be able to put COVID-19 fully behind us. Despair that tension and guilt will always haunt relationships between black, brown and white people. Despair that disagreements over issues involving human sexuality […]
Acts 1:1-21
Pentecost
[…] might offer specific examples of the way the Spirit draws worshipers together in their own churches. So much divides Jesus’ friends, whether it’s our ethnicity or politics, COVID-19 or our response to it. As people who traffic in words, preachers are keenly aware of words and actions’ power to heighten those divisions, as well […]
Matthew 14:22-33
Proper 14A
[…] many ways. Lately this desire for Christian men in particular to step it up with muscular Gospel swagger has been coming out in church’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Masks are being declared as a sign of weak faith. Churches following government restrictions on holding worship services are likewise weak and not near bold […]
Matthew 28:16-20
Trinity Sunday A
[…] Name and what’s more, the Jesus who holds out this promise and prospect of new life promises to be with us. Always. Maybe during this time of COVID-19 pandemic and all the uncertainty it has unleashed, we need this. Lately I have heard some plaintive pleas for prayers from some pastors I know. They […]
Matthew 21:1-11
Palm Sunday A
[…] economic comfort, guarantee good pensions or create good jobs. Those who answer, “Who is this Jesus?” with a “He heals us from all our diseases – like COVID-19” may also be disappointed. All healing does come from God. But God doesn’t yet heal everyone who gets sick. While Jesus is the Great Physician, some […]
2 Corinthians 13:11-13
Trinity Sunday A
[…] to help God’s adopted sons and daughter faithfully serve both God and each other. We preach and teach this Lesson, of course, in the context of a COVID-19 pandemic. So 2 Corinthians’ 13’s proclaimers may want to explore how the Spirit creates community when our hearers are not only physically distant from each other, […]
1 Corinthians 7:29-31
Epiphany 3B
[…] return remained on the horizon. That dual crisis may help 1 Corinthians 7’s proclaimers speak its truths into the 21st century. Vaccines against and better treatments for COVID-19 give some of us hope that the crisis that is the current global pandemic will end. The affects of the pandemic are giving some people hope […]
John 10:1-10
Easter 4A
[…] to new life. In short, there is just possibly a bit more Eastertide in John 10 than first meets the eye! And again, during a time of COVID-19 pandemic when we are stalked not by some wolf we can see but by a virus we cannot see; at a time when staying behind the […]
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