Tag: Sermon on the Plain

  • Blessings and Woes—for Epiphany 6C

    Blessings and Woes—for Epiphany 6C

    In the sermon on the plain, Jesus outlines a relationship to the Kin-dom that is based, not on virtue, but on our relationship to others.

  • Weird Love

    Weird Love

    In the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus challenges us to see love, not as something to be received, but as something to give.

  • Two Kingdoms – The challenge at the heart of Jesus’s sermon on the plain

    Two Kingdoms – The challenge at the heart of Jesus’s sermon on the plain

    In the blessings and woes, Jesus challenges us to see things in a different way: to write a different ending to the story.

  • Blessings and Woes

    Blessings and Woes

    In the sermon on the plain, Jesus offers a teaching that feels opposite to our expectations – to see what we’re missing.

  • You – called out and called in by scripture

    You – called out and called in by scripture

    The sermon on the plains offers a poignant opportunity to dig into why we struggle with seeing ourself in scripture.

  • Brave in Love

    Brave in Love

    Jesus keeps offering a vision of radical love. But for some reason we keep shaking our heads and going “No, really. What do you want?”

  • back to the future

    back to the future

    In the Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6), Jesus tells us what we hoped we’d never hear: our world is upside down and we’re being called to flip it over.

  • You are blessed.

    You are blessed.

    When I went to vote on Thursday, I drove around the one-way streets trying to figure out where to park. I found a spot on the street and crossed. The sun was out. Our unseasonably warm weather confuses my family. We keep wondering when it will finally cool off. Maybe this will be the week…