Tag: Lent

  • March 7, 2012
    Third Sunday in Lent John 2:13-22 (25)   "The gesture in the temple is all the more poignant and prophetic…

  • April 7, 2011
    Fifth Sunday in Lent Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 130; Romans 8:1-11; John 11:1-45 The texts for this Sunday leave no doubt…

  • 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…

  • March 22, 2011
    John 4:5-42 How long does it take to know someone truly? A year, a decade, a lifetime? Whether working alongside…

  • March 15, 2011
    Lent 2:  Genesis 12:1-4a, Psalm 121, Romans 4:1-5, 13-17, John 3:1-17 Through rain, desert, wind and snow Abraham and Sarah…

  • March 8, 2011
    Matthew 4:1-11 Lent begins with Jesus fresh from the waters of his baptism, being led by the Spirit into the…

  • March 9, 2010
    Luke 15: 1-3, 11-32 To see as God sees. I have had the delight this Lent to have always before…

  • March 23, 2009
    Jeremiah 31:31-34; Psalm 51:1-12; John 12:20-33 (Fifth Sunday in Lent) "I have flunked Lent. I flunk it every year." Fleming…

  • March 19, 2009
    Numbers 21:4-9; John 3:13-21 (Fourth Sunday in Lent) With a group of friends, I'm reading a new book entitled Why…

  • March 10, 2009
    John 2:13-22; 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; Exodus 20:1-17 (Lent 3B) There is a joke that occasionally passes through pastors’ circles now…