Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! The Hebrew Scripture for this week offers us the death of Moses, who, after leading the people in the wilderness for forty years, is able to see the land that was promised to the Patriarchs, but he won’t be able to set foot onto it. This is a beautifully tragic …
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Golden Idols
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 …
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. …
