Lost parables
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Parking Lot Conversations
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3 min read
In a reflection for Proper 19C, we look at what precipitates the parables of The Lost; and what it means for us.
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Being Lost and Being Found
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8 min read
The question isn’t what is lost or who is looking. These parables aren’t about the lost, but what it is to participate in losing and finding.
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Invited to the Feast
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8 min read
Rose and I were newlyweds. We were married almost a year when I lost my ring. It was at the end of school–literally the last day of my second year, and I was about to drive back over the border from Ontario into Michigan. Needless to say, I was freaking out. Proper 19C | Luke…
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The Challenge of the Coin
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3 min read
There is nothing worse than recommending someone not come to your church. It pains me to say it, then and now. A young seeker, looking to reconnect with church wanted to talk. We knew each other from previous work, so it was a different kind of awkward. It wasn’t the usual talking-to-strangers kind. She was…
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The “lost” parables reveal a strange truth about Jesus and a blind spot for many Christians. For as much as we want Jesus to treat everyone the same, He doesn’t. And in the Parable of the Lost Sheep, Jesus contrasts the sinners with the righteous. He argues that the sinner who is redeemed brings GOD…
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They Came Closer
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3 min read
I love and hate the good parables. The really good ones. The ones that have so many ways in. The ones that give you so many things to say. Like the one from Sunday. I still dwell on them for days afterward. I have trouble moving on. Maybe I haven’t been preaching long enough to…