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Sunday's readings: 2nd Sunday of Advent
Isaiah 11.1-10; Psalm 72.1-7, 18, 19; Romans 15.4-13; Matthew 3.1-12 WHY is John the Baptist angry with the Pharisees and Sadducees for coming to him asking for baptism? And what is wrong with fleeing from wrath? Not all…
Sunday’s readings: 1st Sunday of Advent
Isaiah 2.1-5; Psalm 122; Romans 13.11-14; Matthew 24.36-44SEARCHING for a good word to describe the drama of Advent Sunday, I was tempted by “cataclysmic”. The “day of the Lord”, the Bible says, will bring darkness,…
Sunday’s readings: Christ the King
Jeremiah 23.1-6; Psalm 46; Colossians 1.11-20; Luke 23.33-43TO REFLECT on Christ the King, I am taking a single verse from Luke’s Gospel (23.38), together with the other Gospel records of the inscription on the cross. But,…
Sunday’s readings: 2nd Sunday before Advent
Malachi 4.1-2a; Psalm 98; 2 Thessalonians 3.6-13; Luke 21.5-19JUST before Judas meets the high priests and scribes (Luke 22.3), Jesus addresses disciples under pressure. Into a situation of terror (arrest, persecution,…
3rd Sunday before Advent Remembrance Sunday
Job 19.23-27a; Psalm 17.1-9 (or 17.1-8); 2 Thessalonians 2.1-5,13-end; Luke 20.27-38SOME questions — rhetorical questions — do not require answers. Others appear to ask one thing, but actually ask something else. A famous…
Sunday’s readings: 4th Sunday before Advent
Isaiah 1.10-18; Psalm 32.1-8; 2 Thessalonians 1; Luke 19.1-10IT IS no fun being short. Time and again, you are at some performance or event, but are seated behind someone blocking your view. There are no handy sycamore trees…
Sunday's readings: Last Sunday after Trinity
Proper 25: Jeremiah 14.7-10, 19-end; Psalm 84.1-7; 2 Timothy 4.6-8, 16-18 LUKE draws the moral from this parable before he tells it: Jesus challenges people who consider themselves righteous, but whose righteousness consists…
Sunday’s readings:18th Sunday after Trinity
Proper 24: Genesis 32.22-31; Psalm 121; 2 Timothy 3.14-4.5; Luke 18.1-8BEING “broken-hearted” is more than metaphor. It is a real medical condition, also known as “broken heart syndrome”. Extreme suffering or grief can cause…
Sunday’s readings: 17th Sunday after Trinity
Proper 23: 2 Kings 5.1-3,7-15c; Psalm 111; 2 Timothy 2.8-15; Luke 17.11-19IN THIS Gospel, “Gratitude and ingratitude are depicted on one and the same dramatic canvas.” So wrote Rudolf Bultmann in 1968 (in his History of the…
Sunday's readings: 16th Sunday after Trinity
Proper 22: Habakkuk 1.1-4; 2.1-4; Psalm 37.1-9; 2 Timothy 1.1-14; Luke 17.5-10 THIS Gospel provides two puzzles in the first two sentences: the first theological, the second botanical. The latter looks simpler, because it is…
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