Discerning Abundance

August 4, 2019
In our gospel reading this morning Jesus is again approached by “someone in the crowd.” Instead of asking a question, this person has a request, but it sounds a bit…

Our Father…

July 28, 2019
This morning’s gospel reading is Luke, chapter 11, verse 1 through 13, where Jesus teaches his disciples to pray. The prayer we say each week comes mostly from Matthew, chapter…

Call Me Martha

July 21, 2019
Last Sunday, in our reading from Luke, a lawyer asked Jesus a question, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” When Jesus turned the question on the Lawyer, he…

Being Neighborly

July 14, 2019
In our gospel reading this morning Jesus is approached by a lawyer who, we are told, wants to test Jesus. The lawyer in this case would be an expert at…

Extreme Makeover

June 23, 2019
Our gospel reading this morning comes from Luke, chapter 8, verses 26 through 39. Jesus and the disciples have travelled by boat, across the Sea of Galilee, to a place…

You Are Witnesses

June 2, 2019
Easter Sunday was six weeks ago. Since then we have been in the Easter Season, or Eastertide. Eastertide will conclude next Sunday on Pentecost. This Sunday we celebrate the Ascension…

No Idle Tale

April 21, 2019
The gospel reading for this Easter Morning is Luke, chapter 24, verse 1 through 12. Similar to all the other gospel accounts of that morning, some women go to the…

Great Expectations

April 14, 2019
It is Palm Sunday, so our gospel reading is the story of Jesus, and his disciples, entering Jerusalem; this year from the gospel of Luke. It is the end of…

On Being Prodigal

March 31, 2019
Our gospel reading for this Fourth Sunday in Lent, is Luke, chapter 15, verses 1 through 3, and 11 through 31. Last week, the message was to repent before it…
Our gospel reading for this Third Sunday in Lent, comes from Luke, chapter 13, verses 1 through 9. In chapter 12 of Luke’s gospel, Jesus has been teaching, sometimes to…

Jerusalem, Jerusalem

March 17, 2019
For our gospel reading for this Second Sunday in Lent, we hear from Luke, chapter 13, verses 31 through 35. We join Jesus on his way to Jerusalem, when he…

Temptation and Testing

March 10, 2019
For our gospel reading today, we go back in the chronology of Luke’s story. Our reading is after the baptism of Jesus, when he goes into the wilderness for forty…

While He Was Praying

March 3, 2019
Our gospel reading today is Luke, chapter 9, verses 28 through 36. This is Luke’s story of the Transfiguration of Jesus. When Jesus took Peter, John, and James up a…