Jesus demonstrates a beautiful lesson in this week’s Gospel reading: do not assume that you know the needs or desires of another person. Bartimaeus called out to Jesus for mercy. He could have asked Jesus for any number of things. Though he’s known to us now simply as a blind beggar, certainly there was more… Read More
Revised Common Lectionary – Why?
Proper 24, Year B: Job 38:1-7 (34-41), Hebrews 5: 10-10, Mark 10:35-45 Track one lectionary preachers are continuing the story of Job this week, after being left last week with Job’s lament. Job has spent the last 37 chapters asking why, defending himself as his friends pose theology after theology all ending in what Job… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Forsaken
Consider, O God, those pounding at the door for your justice, for your steadfast love, for your deliverance. Will you not answer? We are fainting on your front porch, weary with grief. Can you not spare a cup of mercy? In your house is peace; will you not let us in? In your hands is… Read More
RCL: Faithfulness
This week’s texts look a lot at what it means to be faithful. Mark 10:17-31 wrestles with is it enough to follow all of the commandments. The man who questions Jesus seems so confident: “I have done all of these things since I was a boy.” I can picture this person, for whom these choices… Read More
Revised Common Lectionary: June 20
Am I the only one who dreads the splitting of the lectionary into track one and track two? The only anxious bulletin organizer and sermonizer who worries constantly that she has accidentally chosen the wrong track? I digress. This week we have several roads we can choose to travel, but all lead toward God with… Read More
Thursday Prayer – Consolation
Dear God, you spoke to me today of small consolations. I confess to being a day behind on Morning Prayer, to using your prayers to help my racing mind be calm and find rest. The reader read from Job chapter 15, in his beautiful British accent: “Are the consolations of God too small for you,… Read More
Friday Prayer: Job 13, RJV
An Interpretation of Job 13, Revised Julia Version: Look, I have heard everything you are telling me, “friends”, And your words aren’t new to me. I have the same information that you do; And, frankly, you’re not offering different or better interpretation. I want to speak directly to the Almighty and take up this… Read More
Sunday Prayer: Holy Mysteries
Bless the LORD, all people, and praise God’s infinite wisdom. We did not lay earth’s foundations and we did not set the breadth of the sky. We cannot call rain from the clouds or command the lightening to strike. But, O God, we have been stricken here between earth and sky, and we have been… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Do Not Be A Friend of Job
The Lord answered Job’s friends out of the whirlwind: “Who is this that gives counsel by words without knowledge? What have you done with your freedom, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. “What do you know of Divine Prerogative that comes forth from love? Tell me, if you have understanding. How do you… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Strange Fruit
This is what the Lord GOD showed me–a basket of summer fruit. He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass them by. The songs of the temple shall become wailings in… Read More
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