By Parson Brown, on 10:34 am%
Readings
Hosea 2:16-23
Acts 21:1-14
Luke 5:12-26
Meditation
Being intentional about what you do and what you do not do is tough. It is easier to just drift along on the surface of life’s currents. We find the path of least resistance through the day, the week, the year…. In that way we act like electrons bumping . . . → Read More: Tuesday – Pentecost 20
By Parson Brown, on 3:43 pm%
I really like this text. I got more out of the textual study this week than most of the prior weeks. I’m wondering if that was helpful though. There were just so many linkages and promises. You could link old and new testament around the presesnce of God in the Temple . . . → Read More: Sermon – Matt 21:23-32 – Whose Authority?
By Parson Brown, on 9:03 am%
Readings
Esther 7:1-10
Acts 19:11-20
Luke 4:14-30
Meditation
The writers of the Bible not only believed in a personal God, but they believed (saw) personal evil. Luther often talks of Christ’s victory over Sin, Death and the Devil. The passage from Acts today is an example of what such a victory might look like in these last days. . . . → Read More: Thursday – Pentecost 19
By Parson Brown, on 11:24 am%
Readings
Esther 6:1-14
Acts 19:1-10
Luke 4:1-13
Meditation
As I took the weekend off of writing we missed a couple of beats the the story of Acts. Paul went to Athens to let things cool off. He’d been preaching around Thessalonica (Thessalonians) and the Jews got so hot they were hunting him from village to village. Silas . . . → Read More: Wednesday – Pentecost 19
By Parson Brown, on 9:38 am%
Education, in the classical sense, was not training for a particular job or skill set, but it was formation of patterns of thought. It was about how to think. Not what to think – people of good conscience can come to different answers – but how. To do that you have to . . . → Read More: Formation
By Parson Brown, on 2:40 pm%
Grace is strange. On a day when your head seems to be elsewhere (like forgetting to take the offering and moving it later in the service) you get a sermon that you still like. Pure grace.
Grace is just on the border of our experience. That we can recognize it seems to me . . . → Read More: Sermon Matt 20:1-16 – Workers in the Vineyard
By Parson Brown, on 12:50 am%
Readings
Esther 1:1-19
Acts 17:1-5
John 12:26-43
Meditation
Paul is still going first to the synagogs. He is arguing with Jews. The the synagogs of the diaspora also contained god-fearers, gentiles who believed in the Jewish God. At Thessalonica Paul debates with the Jews for three weeks. Always from scripture. Some of the Jews were . . . → Read More: Friday – Pentecost 18
By Parson Brown, on 9:33 am%
Readings
Job 28:1-28
Acts 16:25-40
John 12:27-36
Meditation
You either like Pual or you will find him extremely annoying. He doesn’t live by the rules of polite society. When you meet people like that they either tickle you at the mischievous fun they have playing with and calling society on its own rules, or you hate them passionately. . . . → Read More: Thursday – Pentecost 18
By Parson Brown, on 10:41 am%
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Readings
Job 42:1-17
Acts 16:16-24
John 12:20-26
Meditation
Paul meets a servant girl with a spirit. The text interestingly doesn’t lable it an evil spirit, but this spirit does something that they all did when they saw Christ – they shout . . . → Read More: Wednesday – Pentecost 18
By Parson Brown, on 10:43 am%
Readings
Job 41:1-11
Acts 16:6-15
John 12:9-19
Meditation
Paul is trying to go north, but the Spirit won’t let him. Instead it tells him to go west. And being Paul, he heads for the center, to Philippi, the leading city of the region and a Roman colony. If you read Paul’s letter to the Phillipians you soon . . . → Read More: Tuesday – Pentecost 18
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