Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! Last week’s reading from Exodus was the giving of the Law in what we know as the Ten Commandments. The lectionary jumps forward a significant twelve chapters for this week, to a story of confusion and disappointment. All of those chapters are about the Law, with …
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A Word: Failing Tests
And the expectation of blind faithProper 8A | Genesis 22:1-14, Matthew 10:40-42 There was an American rabbi in California who invited his students to go home and read this passage from Genesis, chapter 22. He said “Read it through. Sit with it. Then read it through again. …
A Word: Persistent Faith, True Love
Living love in hopeless timesProper 24C | Luke 18:1-8 Jesus tells a story about a persistent widow and an unjust judge, inviting us to compare that to the generosity of God. Just what we need: a bunch of church people being told they need to complain more. I don’t like that anthem. So …
