Today we hear a parable about people who have forgotten to whom their faithfulness should belong and have forgotten the gracious hand which blessed them with the gifts they needed to do the work they have been called to do. How easy it is for us to forget that God is the one who has […]
This is a baptismal homily for Mallaurie McCombs. Having the mind of Christ shapes the kind of church into which she is baptized. In addition to Philippians 2, the parable of the 2 brothers Matthew 21 is cited
The preacher takes a stab at creating parallel parables to the terse little stories of Jesus. Do you understand all of this?
There’s a crisis in the kingdom; someone has planted weeds into the wheat. The preacher imagines what the disciples say to Jesus after (according to Matthew) Jesus explains his parable. An allusion is made to the crisis in keeping peace in the Holy Land.
Today we have our old familiar friend, the Parable of the Sower, as our Gospel lesson. The seed in our parable today is sown everywhere! The one who has been called to sow the Word in the world made it a point to sow the seed in every kind of soil. Yet isn’t that what […]
Today we have the Sadducees questioning Jesus about the resurrection because they did not believe in it. So they pose a situation to Jesus that uses the law of Moses to show how a woman could have been married several times and then they want to know in the resurrection whose wife she would be. […]
Today our Gospel lesson starts out by letting the reader know that Jesus told the disciples this parable as a way to teach them “about their need to pray always and not to lose heart” because we have a God who will quickly grant justice to his children. This is a good reminder to us […]
Today we have an interesting text for our Gospel lesson. In it we hear the apostles ask Jesus to increase their faith. This at first does not seem like a terrible request, for it is not as if they are asking Jesus to increase their income or their power, but rather their faith!
Using a dialog with Jesus about the particularly troubling parable of the dishonest steward, this sermon probes the story from a different point of view.
Today we have a Gospel lesson that speaks to our calling as Christians to be humble and welcoming. At the beginning of our lesson we are reminded by Jesus that any time is a good time to help those in need as Jesus heals on the Sabbath. And then Jesus reminds us that it is […]