Tag: Proper 4C

  • Upsetting the Apple Cart

    Upsetting the Apple Cart

    For this transgression roots down to the very foundation of how we understand faith. How Jesus keeps widening the circle Proper 4C  |  Luke 7:1-10 As we return to the gospel we call Luke after several weeks in John and the last two in Acts, the lectionary drops us off in a story of Jesus’s…

  • A Powerful Faith

    a homily for Proper 4C Text: Luke 7:1-10 [Listen to “A Powerful Faith” here while you read along.] Making it personal Man, that Centurion looks good, doesn’t he? Generous? Check. Compassionate? Check. Faithful? Double-check. That guy sure looks good in the end, doesn’t he? The basics of the story are these: Jesus strolls into Capernaum.…