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Biblical Text: Mark 1:14-20 I think it is sometimes difficult to relate the call to discipleship we hear in the gospels to our lives. These are men (and women) who literally dropped their nets. How do you proclaim that without completely gutting it or spiritualizing it too much? The epiphany season’s texts give . . . → Read More: Discipleship: Dropping the nets, Identity and the Reign of God Biblical Text of Sermon: John 1:43-51 The modern world is one full of distractions. I’m the geek that as a kid you could find reading an encyclopedia. My schoolmates were sure that “Encyclopedia Brown” was biographical. But today I find myself reading a few pages and flitting off to something else. . . . → Read More: The Exclusive/Inclusive Jesus One of my recurring themes is how we experience time. And the way I like to talk about it is human and inhuman ways of marking time. Here is a perfect example of the inhuman calendar. Fuller articles here and here. Note the reason we need a new calendar. The Hanke-Henry calendar would streamline financial . . . → Read More: The Inhuman Calendar Full Text The text of this sermon was John 1:29-42. That is two days of John the Baptist’s preaching and the evangelists account of the first disciples of Jesus. By telling us this account -which is starkly different that the synoptic (Matt/Mark/Luke) tradition, the evangelist invites us to ponder our own discipleship journey. Where . . . → Read More: “Rosebud” – Discipleship Journeys Full Text …The real epiphany is not that God is the creator or that his Word is active and has power, but that He is right here with us. That God comes to be with us. And he says stop being afraid. Even if we didn’t get confused about God having authority or his . . . → Read More: Who’s standing next to you? |
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