Are we prepared for this?
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The dark prophecies in our readings kick off the season of anticipation. They also help us find the message for our moment.
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The dark prophecies in our readings kick off the season of anticipation. They also help us find the message for our moment.
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14. God cares no more for the true acts of piety than the empty if no one is made free. 10 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom!Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! 11 What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord;I have had enough of burnt-offerings of rams…
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4. God promised to be with the Hebrew people in liberation from Egypt and desert wandering. For years, I’ve been drawn to the wanderings and grumblings text in Exodus. I love it as a story all by itself. But read up against the story which immediately precedes it, It plays like absurdist drama. Imagine growing…
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There’s a seam in our story this morning. One in which, if you’ve been following along, might cause some difficulty. It’s a small thing, really. Last week, we meet Andrew and another in the gospel we call John as disciples of John the Baptist. This week, in Matthew they’re fishermen. A small matter, but significant.…
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A preacher was on vacation and came home to a flood “of Biblical proportions.” He spoke of needing to canoe out of his Louisiana house and escape the devastation. That the preacher is notorious for a sense of ill-will to many and is politically powerful gave the experience a sense of delicious irony. Proper 16C…
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Jesus can be a real jerk. Seriously. Major league jerk. Clean-up hitter, empty the bases level jerk. OK. Maybe not a jerk. Maybe it is just that he sounds so snarky that it’s impossible not to be offended. OK. Maybe not snarky. But what else could it be? It isn’t nice! It is something else.…
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The sort of liberation Jesus offers comes with a helping of crazy. Proper 5B | Mark 3:20-35, 1 Samuel 8:4-20 Mistaking GOD for a demon This morning we truly begin the season after Pentecost. Unlike the other seasons of Advent, Christmas, the season after the Epiphany, Lent, and Easter, this season does not have an…
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a homily for Proper 16C Text: Luke 13:10-17 The third time’s a charm Let me start with a conceit. As is so often the case, what Jesus says and does is not heard the same way by everyone. Jesus is breaking the law. For those who benefit from the lawbreaking, particularly the woman in…