February 19, 2017 – Seventh Sunday After Epiphany Luke 7:36-50 Woman weeps at Jesus’ feet and is forgiven Dinner, Interrupted This is one of those few times when Jesus goes to the halls of power. He’s invited to dinner with a Pharisee, and he goes. And while he’s there, dinner is interrupted. A woman, a sinner, (not that that is much of a distinguishing…
February 12, 2017 – Sixth Sunday After Epiphany Luke 7:18-35 Tell John what you see and hear Go and Tell How are we to know who the Messiah is? We wonder that, and it appears that John wondered that as well. “Are you the one Or are we still to wait?” John knows the Messiah is coming, knows that he is sent to make a…
The kids tell us why we participate in the Souper Bowl of Caring and support the Marion Ministerial Alliance. A hint: It’s God.
February 5, 2017 – Fifth Sunday After Epiphany Luke 7:1-17 Raising the Widow’s Son Power and Authority How do we encounter Jesus? These passages show two very different encounters. In the first, the outsider (the centurion) actively seeks Jesus out on behalf of his slave/servant. You may hear echoes of the healing of Namaan in this passage. The centurion seeks Jesus out, asks for his…
Gayla and the kids remind us of the statistics behind the Super Bowl and the Souper Bowl.
January 29, 2017 – Fourth Sunday After Epiphany Luke 6:1-16 Healing on the Sabbath Sabbath Stories This chapter begins talking about Sabbath and how Jesus interacts with Sabbath. Jesus allows the disciples to work to feed themselves on the Sabbath. They pick grain, and rub it between their fingers and consume it. And Jesus is questioned as to why he allows the disciples to violate…
January 22, 2017 – Third Sunday After Epiphany Luke 5:1-11 – Great Catch of Fish Just Doing What We Do This is a famous passage. In it Christ calls his first disciples. They are out in the boat, and apparently have been all night. Jesus sees them washing/mending their nets. Christ gets in a boat they push off, and from the boat Christ teaches…
Preparation for Souper Bowl Sunday (February 5, 2017).
January 15, 2017 – Second Sunday After Epiphany Luke 4:14-30 Sermon at Nazareth Too Familiar? How well do we know each other? How well do we know Jesus? How well do we know Scripture? This passage seems to imply that we can know someone so well that we can know what they aren’t as well as what they are. The crowd knows Jesus.…