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This Gospel is about Jesus, his miracle working, his truth telling, and his authority. The setting is his home town and the countryside near where he grew up. In his home town he was rejected. In fact they were mad enough at him to kill. In Capernaum, they were astounded because he taught with authority….
“Now you are the body of Christ and individual members of it.”I Corinthians 12-27 Because of the long tradition of American individualism, most of us have a hard time really understanding how the Bible sees us. How of have you heard someone say, I can worship God better in nature than I can in church?”…
What a marvelous set of readings we have for today! First, Isaiah declares that God loves us, and will treat us superbly. Then in the epistle, St. Paul tells us that here are many kinds of people – because God the Holy Spirit wanted it that way, for his own purposes. And finally, in the…
The Baptism of Jesus is a big event. There are a lot of things that come together in Jesus’ baptism. There are a lot of things that come together in our Baptisms. First, let us consider John the Baptist. John is a certifiable wild man. He came from the wilderness. He dressed in what was…
Today marks the celebration of Epiphany, the revelation, the showing forth, the manifestation of God. This season is begun with the story of the Wise One’s seeking out Bethlehem of Judah in order to find the new King, the one indicated by the great light in the sky and confirmed in the holy texts of…
This Gospel lesson is the one window we have into Jesus’ life in early adolescence. But we really can’t appropriately use the term adolescence in this context. Entrance into adulthood was pegged at the 12th year in that culture. So the visit to the Temple in Jerusalem was a time of transition for the 12…
About a year and a half ago, in a restaurant in Austin, Texas, called the Green Mesquite in the booth next to us sat a family. If you ever go there and you like barbecue, try it. At the booth next to us was a family of three, a little girl, her father and mother….
Christmas Day and a 3 year old asked what were we going to do tonight. Her response. “We are going to wish Jesus happy birthday and thank you.” If I had any sense I would stop talking and let that stand as the sermon. It does pretty well sum it all up. I guess I…
The Christiams Story according to St. Luke has to be one of the most familiar of all of the stories in the Bible. Our earliest memories of it may be visualized in the pageant, children in bath robes with towels on their heads… animals… sometimes made of cardboard… sometimes real children in costumes and makeup……
In this lovely time of the year, we are reminded that what will happen on Christmas Day, what did happen 2,000 years ago, was foretold for centuries. Not foretold in a way that means looking into the future, but foretold in the way of preparation. We cannot look at the Christmas story without realizing that…
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