Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20
Proper 22A
[…] God is, God is very specific here. “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.” God has a name, a unique name that reveals much about his essence, as I pointed out in the Sermon Commentary on Exodus 3. This law-giving God is the covenant […]
Mark 16:1-8
Easter Day B
[…] which had stored onto its computer the standard funeral service. Each time a funeral had to be held the secretary would tell the computer to find the name of the deceased, replacing it each time with the correct name for this specific funeral. So one week Mary Smith passed away and the secretary had […]
Acts 7:55-60
Easter 5A
[…] their new work hardly seems like the kind that was likely to get someone killed. Luke tells us that one of those first deacons is a man named Stephen. While we know very little about his background, his name at least suggests that he comes from the Greek-speaking part of the early church. Acts […]
Psalm 8
1st Sunday after Christmas A
[…] revolution that will enable us to start and end each day with the words that bracket this great Psalm. “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.” This revolution is based in those words of verse 4 that are addressed to God. “What is man that you are mindful […]
Psalm 100
Proper 29A
[…] Psalm 100 calls us to sing a new song to the real King. Its predominant tone is joy and gladness, because it is focused on a particular name. All day long every day of every week, we hear “Trump, Trump, Trump,” or “Kim, Kim, Kim,” or “Putin, Putin, Putin.” With those names drummed into […]
Psalm 29
Epiphany 1B
[…] Whoa. Some of that juice gets hard-wired into our hearts? It’s a wonder we don’t just catch fire or even incinerate all together! But baptisms into the Name of this Triune God are connecting us to just that power. Given all of that then, maybe Psalm 29 and baptism are a good pairing after […]
John 17:6-19
Easter 7B
[…] says that for our sake he sanctified himself; he was sent by the Father to the beloved. He was sent, sanctified, with the purpose of making God’s name and word known to us. Jesus’s committed work led to our faith and trust in Jesus’s connection with the Father: we believed he was sent and […]
The Thin Red Line (1998) – 2
[…] and its prized landing strips. Except now, at the film’s very beginning, Witt and a buddy have gone AWOL and found refuge among native villagers on a nameless nearby island. The second sequence in the film features long wordless ”looks” at Witt paddling a dugout, swimming with village boys, and simply treading water as […]
Darker Than Amber
Travis McGee (the story’s main character) has an old friend named McGee and Maya know an old friend named Jake Karlo. He’s a sort of con man, but a reasonably honest one. “He is about the size of a full grown cricket. His standard gait is a jog trot. When I first knew him, […]
Psalm 89:1-4, 15-18
Proper 8A
[…] for the full-throated lament that is still to come later in the psalm. In the end it will be precisely because of all the things that get named in verses 1-4 and 15-18 that the psalmist will utter his laments. “Because X, Y, & Z are all true, O God, therefore you cannot turn […]
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