Tag: obedience

  • June 25, 2020
    Fourth Sunday After Pentecost Genesis 22:1-14 The saga of Abraham’s life collapses into one terrible command. “Take your son, your…
  • September 27, 2017
    Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost Exodus 17:1-7 Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32 Philippians 2:1-13 Matthew 21:23-32 For anyone who spends any amount of…
  • April 21, 2016
    Fifth Sunday of Easter John 13:31-35 "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I…
  • February 16, 2016
    Second Sunday in Lent Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 Psalm 27 Philippians 3:17-4:1 Luke 13:31-35 For most of my life, I have…
  • September 5, 2012
    Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 35:4-7A James 2:1-17 Mark 7:24-37 My mother – who, while…
  • December 13, 2011
    Fourth Sunday of Advent Luke 1: 26-38 I love the way Luke and Matthew begin their Gospels. Both tell us of…
  • June 24, 2010
    Galatians 5:1, 13-26 In Bound to be Free: Evangelical Catholic Engagements in Ecclesiology, Ethics, and Ecumenism Reinhard Hütter notes that…
  • March 5, 2010
    Luke 13: 1-9 Many years ago I heard Walter Brueggemann say to a room full of preachers, “We must always…