Tag: Healing

  • September 4, 2015
    Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23 Mark 7:24-37 James 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17   The appropriate response to the depiction of Christ’s suffering…

  • February 3, 2015
    Fifth Sunday after Epiphany Mark 1:29-39 Scholars often speak of Mark’s gospel as a passion narrative with a long introduction.…

  • May 30, 2014
    Seventh Sunday of Easter Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35 I Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 John 17:1-11 My friend Stan Dotson claims that texts…

  • October 10, 2013
    Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Twentt-First Sunday after Pentecost 2 Timothy 2:8-15 Jeremiah 29:1,4-7 Luke 17:11-19 The real trouble with…

  • June 8, 2013
    Third Sunday after Pentecost Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 Kings 17:8-24 Galatians 1:11-24 Luke 7:11-17 Together this week’s lectionary…

  • March 14, 2012
    Fourth Sunday of Lent 2 Chronicles 36:14-23 OR Numbers 21:4-9 Ephesians 2:4-10 John 3:14-21 OR John 6:4-15 I am Nicodemus:…

  • March 31, 2011
    1 Samuel 16:1-13 We live in a culture obsessed with appearance.  Tanning beds promise us sun-kissed bodies year round.  Moleskine…

  • December 31, 2010
    John 1:1-18; Matthew 2:1-12 What makes God visible?  That was the question that struck me reading the lectionary passages for…

  • May 5, 2010
    John 5: 1-9 Jesus is in Jerusalem and he goes by the Pool of Bethesda. This pool, fed by an…

  • June 24, 2009
    Mark 5:21-43 (Fourth Sunday After Pentecost) (Image: Holy Spirit Dance, Gwen Meharg, watercolor.) When we read the story of Jesus…