John Jay Alvaro

Seek and you shall…

Second Sunday after the Epiphany Psalm 40:1-11, John 1:29-42 This week we will let Paul David Hewson (aka Bono) be...
January 15, 2014

King/Fool

Christ the King 2 Samuel 5:1-3 OR Jeremiah 23:1-6 Colossians 1:11-20 Luke 23:33-43 I spent three years and a lot...
November 21, 2013

Treading Silently Near Tender Hearts

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Hosea 1:2-10 OR Genesis 18:20-32 Colossians 2:6-15 Luke 11:1-13 When I...
July 25, 2013

“The regime…was just demolished…by…tears.”

Fifth Sunday of Lent Isaiah 43:16-21 Psalm 126 Philippians 3: 4-14 John 8: 1-11 Lent is a difficult season to...
March 15, 2013

Darkness and Light, and My Son’s Need to Know Where the Bad People Go

Epiphany of the Lord Isaiah 60:1-6 Ephesians 3:1-12 Matthew 2:1-12 Dallas, my current hometown, is full of huge churches with...
January 2, 2013

Home is Often a Troubled Place

Jeremiah 31:7-9 Jeremiah offers a compelling vision: the people together, a great company, coming home. But the picture is all...
October 24, 2012

Reading Around the text

Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14 Ephesians 5:15-20 John 6: 51-58 The Lectionary...
August 15, 2012