Hebrews 5:1-10
Lent 5B
[…] brush aside our suffering and by entering into it, he saved us in a most compelling and loving way. It seems that one December afternoon just before Christmas vacation was to begin a group of parents stood in the lobby of a preschool, waiting to claim their children. When the bell rang, the youngsters […]
Romans 8:12-17
Trinity Sunday B
[…] had to guess, I’d imagine that “Trinity Sunday” may be the most under-celebrated day on the liturgical calendar. It goes without saying that it cannot compete with Christmas or Easter. Even Ascension Day and Pentecost have a hard time generating anywhere near the liturgical wattage of those two big celebrations. Epiphany might get a […]
Luke 3:1-6
Advent 2C
[…] those places may be and then go there. Because that is where you will find life, and life abundant at that. Please Note: Year C Advent and Christmas 2018 Resources are available on CEP. Textual Points The Synoptic gospels all do the same thing with Isaiah 40:3: namely, they take the line “in the […]
Luke 18:9-14
Proper 25C
[…] of being bright to begin with, however! Or, in another Lewis analogy, suppose a six-year-old little girl says, “Daddy, may I have $5 to buy you a Christmas present?” Well, any decent father will give the child the money and, come Christmas morning, will exclaim loudly and gleefully over whatever bauble the child bought. […]
James 5:7-10
Advent 3A
[…] visits from family members and friends who live at a distance from us. A few of us may even feel impatient to be done with this whole Christmas business so that we can return to some kind of normalcy. Of course, it can be difficult to stay patient in this or any season. Ask […]
John 14:15-21
Easter 6A
[…] scene as looking less like a lecture hall with attentive students taking notes on what the wise professor was saying from the lectern and more like a Christmas Eve dinner party that had started out fine but that exploded into something quite different when suddenly Dad used the occasion to inform his children that […]
Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26
Advent 4B
[…] to be dropping out on many parts of our lives and of our world. And though we are now in the last Sunday of Advent 2020 with Christmas a scant five days away, we have to face the fact that we are in the midst of a long, dark winter. Hope may be on […]
Romans 16:25-27
Advent 4B
[…] So perhaps this Sunday God’s adopted sons and daughters can at least begin to turn from Advent’s hymns of longing such as “Come, thou Long-Expected Jesus” to Christmas carols’ “Joy to the world, the Lord has come.” And perhaps near the end of 2020’s utter strangeness and the beginning of 2021’s complete mystery, we […]
1 Corinthians 8:1-13
Epiphany 4B
[…] “knew” these things were tempted to look down on people who worried about eating food people had sacrificed to an idol. I’ll never forget the extended family Christmas party that my distant cousin soured with condescension. This formally educated person made a condescending remark about my formally uneducated cousin’s work as a refuse hauler. […]
1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a
Proper 7C
[…] them back together with the glue of grace. I once read a story about Tommy, a little six-year-old boy in Kindergarten. For a couple of weeks before Christmas all the children in the class worked on a very special present for their parents and on the final day of school before the Christmas holiday […]
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