October 13, 2019 Pentecost 18 C Luke 17:11-19

“On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee.” (Luke 17:11)

In this week’s Gospel Jesus finds himself somewhere along the border.  Jesus is wandering through some kind of no man’s land, an uncomfortable place between two peoples who […]

October 6, 2019 Pentecost 17 C Luke 17:5-10

In the chapters preceding this week’s appointed Gospel reading from Luke, Jesus teachings on discipleship have been very challenging to say the least.

“Sell your possessions, and give alms.” – “Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No […]

September 29, 2019 Pentecost 16C Luke 16:19-31

“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.  And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; […]

September 22, 2019 Luke 16:1-13

“There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was squandering his property.”

In this week’s Gospel Jesus tells the story of the “Dishonest Manager,” surprising us by lifting up this “shrewd”man as an example to be imitated by his […]

September 15, 2019 Luke 15:1-10

In this week’s Gospel Jesus speaks about two different ways of being lost.  We can become lost like sheep.  “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until […]

September 8, 2019 “God’s Work, Our Hands”

John 13:34-35 “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

This Sunday many congregations in […]

September 1, 2019 The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost “The Table”

Luke 14:12-14  (Jesus) said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you […]

August 25, 2019 The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost “Bless the Lord, My Soul”

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.  Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all his benefits.”(Psalm 103:1-2)

An old Jewish story …. A student once asked his […]

August 11, 2019 The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Genesis 15:1-6; Luke 12:32-34

“The Magical Moment”

(God) brought (Abraham) outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” And he believed the Lord; and the Lord reckoned it to him as […]