Sunday’s Coming
Third spaces and more (John 2:13-22)
Churches often live in an uneasy relationship with their property.
A lament psalm without lament (Psalm 22:23-31; Mark 8:31-38)
Lament psalms typically move to trust at some point, but reading only those verses feels strange in Lent.
John the Baptist is for Lent (Mark 1:9-15)
Not just Advent
Ashes together (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21)
Praying in community is often more powerful than praying “in secret.”
Ignorant of the gospel (2 Corinthians 4:3-6)
Sometimes it seems like the believers are the ones for whom the gospel is veiled.
The different people we are (1 Corinthians 9:16-23)
We are all like Paul, boasting to the Corinthian church about being all things to all people.
On never posting (1 Corinthians 8:1-13)
Food offered to idols is not really a live issue for us, but social media usage is.
When they actually listen (Jonah 3:1-5, 10)
There’s something that’s even stranger than being a prophet.
All things lawful (1 Corinthians 6:12-20)
Is it possible to read Paul as an early exponent of a wellness ethic for sexuality?
Why baptize? (Mark 1:4-11)
And why would anyone baptize the dead?
The magi and their epiphany (Isaiah 60:1-6; Matthew 2:1-12)
Do they later say to their friends, “How could we not have known?”
Wisdom and favor (Luke 2:22-40)
The hymns of Mary, Zechariah, and Simeon reflect the worship material of early Christians.
The light of hope for refugees (Isaiah 9:2-7; Luke 2:1-20)
Mary and Joseph must have felt dejected and homeless.
Baser things and better things (Luke 1:26-38)
The annunciation is a story about a woman bearing forth the better things from the baser.
John the avant-garde (John 1:6-8, 19-28)
John the Baptist had no chance at being ordinary—but he takes his outlier status to new heights all on his own.
The voices we hear (Mark 1:1-8)
It is noisy out there.
Before and after the end (Mark 13:24-37)
Jesus speaks of end things as a way of contextualizing all the other things in life that feel like endings.
I was sick and you visited me (Matthew 25:31-46)
Each year, about 1.9 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed in the US.
Frederick Douglass’s talents (Matthew 25:14-30)
When the true master returned, he found Douglass using his gifts for justice.
All our choices (Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25)
We are faced with many decisions each day.