By Parson Brown, on 9:06 am%
Note: My wife and I have completed the large part of moving from St. Louis to West Henrietta, NY to take the pulpit at St. Mark. I have internet back and I have an office. In the intervening days the lectionary shifted us in the Old Testament to Numbers – the immediate wonderings . . . → Read More: Monday – Pentecost 7
By Parson Brown, on 10:22 am%
Readings
Ecclesiastes 11:9 – 12:14
Galatians 5:25 – 6:10
Matthew 16:21-28
Meditation
Today is the last day of the Ecclesiastes readings. Thank God for small mercies. The Preacher’s words are hard because as a 21st century American we are youth obsessed and always hopeful in the new new thing. And even through that cultural filter, we know instinctively . . . → Read More: Friday – Pentecost 4
By Parson Brown, on 8:18 am%
Readings
Ecclesiastes 11:1-8
Galatians 5:16-24
Matthew 16:13-20
Meditation
Today is my oldest child’s fifth birthday. Love and joy are easily felt. Peace and patience are are sorely tested. In looking at St. Paul’s lists of vices and virtues, the works of the flesh and the fruits of the spirit, the time nature of the words is striking. . . . → Read More: Thursday – Pentecost 4
By Parson Brown, on 9:00 am%
Readings
Ecclesiastes 9:11-18
Galatians 5:1-15
Matthew 16:1-12
Meditation
Proof, signs, give me something I can see, taste, touch, smell or hear. Then I will know. But proof often deceives us, or even more common we want more of it. We shouldn’t downplay those things, Jesus didn’t. In Matthew’s narrative Jesus has been all around the region of . . . → Read More: Wednesday – Pentecost 4
By Parson Brown, on 9:19 am%
Readings
Ecclesiastes 8:14-9:10
Galatians 4:21-31
Matthew 15:29-39
Meditation
Why does Matthew have a second feeding the masses miracle? Jesus feeds the 5000 a short time before this in Matthew’s narrative, but in today’s reading the number is 4000. The disciples pick up 12 baskets left over from 5 loaves and 2 fishes earlier. Here they pick up 7 . . . → Read More: Tuesday – Pentecost 4
By Parson Brown, on 9:12 am%
Note: The Readings are coming from the two year lectionary originally based in the Book of Common Prayer.
Readings
Ecclesiastes 7:1-14
Galatians 4:12-20
Matthew 15:21-28 ESV
Meditation
The Matthew reading is one of those that is so “full of stuff” that keeping it to 150 words is tough. A Cannanite woman, the historic and hated enemy of Israel is the . . . → Read More: Monday – Pentecost 4
By Parson Brown, on 9:40 am%
Readings:
Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
Galatians 3:15-22
Matthew 14:22-36
Meditation
The scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God’s promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ (Gal 3:22 NLT). The earth is like one giant prison. We all can feel the bars placed around us. Those things we don’t want to do that . . . → Read More: Friday – Pentecost 3
By Parson Brown, on 9:19 am%
Readings
Ecclesiastes 3:16-4:3
Galatians 3:1-14
Matthew 14:13-21
Meditation
The law and the gospel. That polarity is the bedrock Lutheran understanding. The reading from Ecclesiastes is law. The plight of men and women is to live and die in uncertainty. Even the oppressor has no one to comfort him. Evil multiplies. The law convicts and . . . → Read More: Thursday – 3rd Week of Pentecost
By Parson Brown, on 9:01 am%
Opening note. I am using the daily two year lectionary which was in Lutheran Worship and originally in the Book of Common Prayer. I am taking it directly from For All the Saints, a prayer book published by the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau. It will read through most of the OT in two . . . → Read More: Wednesday of Pentecost 3
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