I think it’s Lent 4. What are you doing for this long sequestered Lent that we are experiencing? Are you streaming or zooming or recording? We cancelled late in the week last week and ended up not doing anything, so we recorded an abbreviated version of Lent 3 for this week and will go on… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: T-Fig
It’s the last Sunday before Lent. Are you burying or otherwise saying farewell to the alleluia? Will you be preaching the Transfiguration? Revised Common Lectionary folks can find a discussion of Matthew’s text here. The post includes an interrogation of the Light/Dark imagery in the passage, and offers ways to approach it. Narrative Lectionary folks can… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Conflict, chaos and calling.
The Lectionary readings this week give us lots of options – as ever. From Jesus withdrawing for a time, his calling the disciples, a controversial healing that resulted in loss of income for a community, a plea for peace in the early church community – all providing rich seams that have much to speak into… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Come and See
Here we are in the first short section of Ordinary Time or the Season After Epiphany. The hoopla of big feast days is well and truly over. Are you following Jesus through these days of ordinary time? Are you doing a short series before Lent is upon us? Will you ordain and install officers? Are… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: The Waiting Is Ending
And so we come, once again, to Advent 4. We light 4 candles. Will you sing a carol or 2 or stick with Advent hymns only? Do you have a pageant or a cantata and a brief reflection? Or is it a week for a full sermom? If you are preaching, are you with Elizabeth… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Last Week of Ordinary Time
When I think of Ordinary Time, I think of green and of trees. I understand why green; I’m not sure why trees. I took this photo as I set up for worship at our late September church camp worship service in the midst of Ordinary Time. This week, we finally come to the end of… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Lots of options
What will you be preaching this week? How can we help? There are lots of options this week. The Narrative Lectionary has King David with commentary and sermon ideas posted here. The Revised Common Lectionary offers Jacob and the Angel or more Jeremiah, a very small bit of Psalm 119 about the Law or… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party: Summers End
As summer turns to fall in the northern hemisphere, our best offering in my desert home may be the cooler evenings and sunsets. In the Southern Hemisphere, Spring is coming! What will you preach this last day of summer or winter? RCL preachers have scheming managers, famous quotes about “no balm in Gilead” (will anyone… Read More
Preacher Party: Pigs and Prejudices
Is it time to start pulling our hair out yet, preachers? Are you preaching from the Revised Common Lectionary this coming Sunday? If so, are you riveted again by Luke’s story of Jesus and the man possessed by so many spirits that they name themselves “Legion”? I can’t hear the story without thinking about… Read More
11th Hour Preacher Party – Oil with your Prodigals?
Hi there preachers, would-be-preachers, gonna-preach-eventually-preachers, I-know-I-have-words-somewhere-preachers… this is your one stop shop for collective groaning, sharing of goodies (virtual), ideas, words of encouragement and general Oh-my-Goodness-where-did-the-week-go calls for help. It’s the middle of Lent; here in Scotland this means two things this week – it’s Mothering Sunday and time for us to catch up with… Read More
