The Most Public Personal Thing

by | Apr 23, 2006 | Uncategorized

Texts on Sunday, April 23, 2006John 20: 19-31; Acts 4: 32-37 The story in Acts about that first Christian community can cause a little heartburn in a Christian. They held everything in common? No one claimed private ownership of anything? Most of us are not ready to...

Tell It Like It Is

by | Apr 16, 2006 | Uncategorized

Texts on Easter Sunday, April 16, 2006Isaiah 25: 6-9; Mark 16: 1-8 Mark probably ended his gospel like that. “Terror and amazement had them, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.” No stories of the appearances of the risen Lord, no...

Surely Not I

by | Apr 13, 2006 | Uncategorized

Texts on Maundy Thursday, April 13, 2006Matthew 26: 17-30 You have probably heard about the “Gospel of Judas” this last week. A very old tattered parchment tells the story of Jesus’ betrayal with a great twist. Taking Judas aside, Jesus warmly...

Conversion: Looking at Everything at Last

by | Apr 9, 2006 | Uncategorized

Texts on Palm Sunday, April 9, 20062 Samuel 15: 13-14, 19-23, 30-31& Mark 11: 1-11 When David the king crossed horseless and overthrown out of Jerusalem and down into the Kidron Valley, weeping with all his aides and retainers and their families, he imprinted yet...