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We have had an incredible few weeks of International and National current events! All these stories call our attention to massive human suffering, broken lives, pain, and sin in our world. At the same time these stories stir up within us a tremendous sense of empathy and compassion. Today’s scriptures invite us to reach out…
“O Lord, How manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures”(Psalm 104:24) The Endangered Species Act has been an important way that we as a nation exercise our God-given responsibility to serve as guardians and protectors of God’s creation. The Act has helped the recovery…
Today is Earth Day. [Christ is Risen! Still. Easter is such a momentous joy that it takes us fifty day to unwrap and enjoy its gift. Besides being the fourth Sunday in Easter, today we also prepare to celebrate Earth Day tomorrow. Our readings point to this Easter joy, but also to the gift that…
Lots of Good Shepherd readings this Sunday — Ezekiel, the 23rd Psalm, 1 John — if we can count “children of God” as sheep, and the Gospel according to John. The analogy of God as Shepherd and human beings as sheep is one of the most persistent in scripture, both Old and New Testaments; yet…
Imagine being married for 13, 14, 15, maybe even 20 years or more…and thinking that things were generally pretty good between you and your spouse. There were occasional ups and downs, like every marriage. And then, out of the blue one day your spouse comes to you and says, “I’ve filed for divorce.” After the…
Jesus said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence. The sharing of food with the disciples was one of the primary elements of Jesus’ resurrection appearances. He had supper with two disciples on the road to Emmaus….
“On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews,…” For fear of the Jews…. Who were the disciples afraid of, really? Exactly who was threatening them, who might be after them? John is different than the other three gospels,…
“Baptism tells us who we are and who we are becoming,” wrote John the Deacon 1,500 years ago. For most people, including many church members, the idea that identity is based on Baptism is a new one. We have so many way of determining our identity — in fact, we have many identities. Gender, nationality,…
Early in the morning the women disciples of Jesus are on their way to the tomb when suddenly they realize they are going to encounter what we moderns might call a technical difficulty. Who will roll away the stone? It’s a big stone, it’s a big problem. But they continue on anyway. Rocks may be…
We have been on a journey this night. The scripture, prophecies, psalms, canticles, and stories have brought us through the long journey, the history of God’s intervention in the lives of his people. And the message that came through loud and clear in all this history is clear. Even through the darkness of death we…
We gather today as followers of Jesus Christ to stand, as it were, at the foot of his cross, remembering how he suffered agony and bloody sweat so that all might be forgiven and reconciled to God by his sacrificial death. Crucifixion was a tortuous means of execution and sometimes it took days before death…
Have you a will? Have you taken time to think about who is important in your life, and how you would like to thank them, or be remembered? Have you decided what your treasures are, and how those treasures will be divided – or have you tried to figure out how “to take it with…
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