Joseph
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Between — Back to the Birth
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6 min read
To better understand the birth of Jesus in Matthew, we have to go back to the genealogy. A messy, cool bit of surprise and wonder.
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Made Himself Known
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4 min read
Made Himself Known (Day 18 of A Simple Lent) Tuesday After an impassioned plea by Judah, Joseph couldn’t take it anymore. He couldn’t keep the ruse up. He had to tell his brothers that it was him. They embrace. They cry tears of joy. They are reconciled. If we read the Joseph story with literal eyes,…
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All This Has Happened To Me!
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5 min read
All This Has Happened To Me! (Day 14 of A Simple Lent) The Jacob saga in Genesis is fascinating to me. Here is the grandson of Abraham, the blessed, receiver of the covenant, and he is a world-class jerk. Selfish. Thieving. Conniving. Not what you would think of as godly in any way. And certainly…
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Trembling to One Another
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4 min read
Trembling to One Another (Day 13 of A Simple Lent) People are funny. Sometimes “funny ha-ha”. Usually just “funny strange”. Either way, I laugh. There’s something telling in the Joseph story for today – about these brothers who go down to Egypt to get food to bring home to their father (Jacob) and they encounter…
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He Said / She Said
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4 min read
He Said / She Said (Day 8 of A Simple Lent) I’m not really sure if I’m supposed to like Joseph. His Dad, Jacob, was a jerk. He was a liar and a thief, who seemed to take advantage of the blessing of GOD. And even after wrestling with his creator on the banks of the…
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Writing Our Future
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7 min read
a Sermon for Christmas 2AText: Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 A Troubling History A few years ago, Diana Butler Bass wrote a book called A People’s History of Christianity. Like other “People’s Histories,” it is a history told, not from the perspective of the victors, but of the vanquished: in this case, it is the people, whose…