I’m a long time basketball fan, although I usually like the NCAA better than the NBA. But somewhere close is an image of LeBron James after the game 6 loss. The Miami Heat were put together with one idea in mind – glory. They were built to win. Yet they lost. LeBron’s face says . . . → Read More: Cross and Glory
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First, I’ve been a slacker at this site. Confession is good for you. Partly because I just didn’t like what I was writing. Too polemical and not devotional enough. Too intellectual and missing some of the emotional range. We never had that level of traffic here, but I also really didn’t like what was going . . . → Read More: Summer Theological Project I can’t really recommend you read this. It has got to be the most cringe inducing thing I’ve read in a long time. Status obsessed, shallow, vain, conceited, silly…and still heartbreaking. But given all of that, it is a remarkable roadmap for how to kill your Faith or blaspheme the Holy Spirit. It is a . . . → Read More: Its like watching a trainwreck, the horror doesn’t stop… Full Text I find it ironic that in an age full of irony with a people tuned to understanding layers of meaning taking place Palm Sunday in some quarters is being transformed into Passion Sunday. Well not at St. Mark in West Henrietta. Since we have been reading from St. John’s Gospel, I took . . . → Read More: The King Comes Anyway… Full Text We had a double baptism this week. Yes, it breaks a liturgical rule about lent, but the text was perfect – living water, John 4:5-26. The entire segment of John from Nicodemus through the Samaritan Woman and the well with a picture of actual baptisms(!) in between is full of baptismal images . . . → Read More: This Well is Deep… Text: John 1:1-14, Heb 1:1-5 Trouble in the World The presents are all bought, if not all paid for by now. St. Nicholas is busy putting stuff under the trees. We are all at that point of the gifting season where it is what it is. Boyfriend and girlfriend will exchange and find out . . . → Read More: Christmas Eve – “Reveiving” Elizabeth Edwards died yesterday. From what I know she died of breast cancer and left two younger children in her philandering husband’s care. She lived her first 50 years in private and a very public final 11. And those last 11 include a book called Saving Graces and final good-bye that included the word faith. . . . → Read More: The Content of Hope or More on MTD (Moralistic Therapeutic Deism) Text: 1 Tim 2:1-4, Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation I hope you didn’t mind the reading from Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation. It’s a little longer than normal and not biblical, but if you have never read it, it is a short classic and an amazing document of vision. It a vision I think shared by Paul writing . . . → Read More: Thanksgiving Message Full Text Text: Luke 17:1-10 Luke 14:1 – 17:10 in my reading is one long extended teaching on being a disciple. The text for this sermon is the summary or conclusion of that section. I drew that boundary because in Luke 17:11 Jesus is no longer ping-ponging back and forth between disciples and Pharisees, . . . → Read More: The Disciple’s Life of Repentance  Comments are closed  cross, grace, Luke, Repentance, Sermons  discipleship, freedom of the gospel, gospel, grace, law, Luke, Repentance, sin Here is an essay by the above mentioned Joseph Bottom at First Things. Warning, it is deep and political and not a simple read. Truly about First Things as an American. We come across these hard sayings like, “I’ve not come to bring peace but division (Luke 12:51)” or the refrain “the first will be . . . → Read More: Joseph Bottom has been Listening to the Lectionary… |
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