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Advent 4A: God With You
[…] go on so long that you run across a couple in the maternity ward who, even the day after the child’s arrival, still don’t know what to name him or her. That always takes me aback a bit. You’d think after all those months this would be one detail that would have long-since been […]
Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16
Lent 2B
Our names are very important to many of us. We might even argue that they come close as close as anything to identifying who we really are. We are, at least in some ways, our names. Names have throughout measured time had meaning. God asks Adam to name each creature as God creates it, […]
Advent 4A: God With Us
[…] be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel–which means, God with us.” Immanuel! God with us! Who picked that name? Mary and Joseph didn’t. They would never have dreamed of giving their child this name. Parents may pray that God will give them a healthy child. […]
Hosea 1:2-10
Proper 12C
Few parents seem to pick their children’s first names on the basis of their meaning anymore. It appears many pick names on the basis of their popularity or family history. Israelites, however, chose their children’s names because of their meanings. So, for example, Hannah names her son Samuel because she “asked the Lord for […]
Matthew 1:18-25
Advent 4A
[…] reading a story in which an elderly woman is talking to her pregnant granddaughter. “Now listen, my dear,” the old woman says, “I would ask that you name this child after your grandfather and so give him the name Nelson.” Suppose the young woman agrees. “OK, Grandma, his name will be Nelson.” But what […]
Matthew 1:18-25
Advent 4A
[…] reading a story in which an elderly woman is talking to her pregnant granddaughter. “Now listen, my dear,” the old woman says, “I would ask that you name this child after your grandfather and so give him the name Nelson.” Suppose the young woman agrees. “OK, Grandma, his name will be Nelson.” But what […]
Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21
Easter 7C
[…] you peace.” And in Numbers 6 when Aaron and the other priests pronounced that now-famous benediction on the Israelites, it was the equivalent of placing the very name of Yahweh onto those people. How could anything but a great blessing result from that! Because remember: God made clear to the Israelites that the name […]
Mark 10:46-52
Proper 25B
Comments and Observations Bartimaeus. Jericho. Just names, right? Well, not really. Sometimes the Bible discloses some of its most vital points in the details we tend to just skip over en route to the “main” story or the “meat” of a given passage. But in the case of Mark 10, the two names mentioned […]
Luke 16:19-31
Proper 21C
[…] at bringing these ancient stories up-to-date through vivid contemporary language and imagery. Sometimes Capon also did what those of us who preach occasionally do as well: he’d name the characters. And so in the Parable of the Prodigal Son maybe we’ll call the older brother Morris such that at the end of the parable […]
Philippians 2:5-11
Palm Sunday
[…] Jesus’ friends’ relationships, finances, and use of time. Paul goes on to point out that in addition to highly exalting Christ Jesus, God also gave him “the name that is above every name” (9b). This is another case of God raising the Christ who had been obedient all the way to the depths of […]
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