Tag: Proper 5A

  • Misplaced Accuracy

    Misplaced Accuracy

    When Jesus transgresses boundaries, he exposes the way people focus on the wrong thing. Like when we do it, too.

  • The One Rule of Preaching

    The One Rule of Preaching

    The challenge of preaching is the challenge of communicating. We don’t always know what would be simple to understand.

  • Three Stories

    Three Stories

    In these stories, Jesus makes miracles. But that is only possible because people fail to see the change we can make.

  • Between Trinity Sunday and Proper 5 (Year A)

    Between Trinity Sunday and Proper 5 (Year A)

    As we enter into Ordinary Time, we are thrown into the middle of the story in Matthew. At a moment of great confusion.

  • Discipleship Reimagined

    Discipleship Reimagined

    When we take the Great Commission as our marching orders, we often make the same mistakes about Jesus the first disciples made. First Sunday after Pentecost  |  Matthew 28:16-20 These are the last words in the gospel of Matthew. Words which are often referred to as “the Great Commission.” A name which has parallel and…