Today marked the continuation of our journey with John the Baptist, although this week his role is from the borders of the story. John, who has been faithful doing his job and pointing at the coming Messiah wonders if Jesus, who doesn’t look anything like the expected Messiah, is really the one. John’s future did […]
We’ve been looking at the season of Advent as a time of preparation. While, on the one hand, that is a good thing; yet on the other, considering we know the rest of the story (Jesus’ birth celebrated at Christmas and Easter) it is hard to truly prepare. Yet the gospel holds John the Baptist […]
What does the future look like? An age old question… Today, as we begin our preparation, we are reminded that, “About that time no one will know.” Our scripture was future focused and helped set the stage for where we are going in the future. Today’s readings helped remind us that what we are preparing […]
We have been blessed to celebrate the last Sunday after Pentecost in our liturgical year and prepare for the coming year with the First Sunday of Advent next week. But, in order to not get ahead of ourselves we are firmly focused on the “unofficial” celebration of Christ the King Sunday. The readings this morning […]
Today was a day that begins to bring our liturgical year to an end and, not surprisingly much of our readings had a focus on the coming end times and the restoration of creation by God. In our New Testament reading we heard Paul tell the Thessalonians that they should not grow weary doing what […]
The work we do on the physical plant of the church is a celebration of the life of our Parish. The life we live is a reflection of the presence of God in our lives and in our community. As with most churches, the life of our Parish and Congregation is marked with “successes” and […]
We looked at a smattering of scripture today – all the way from Habakkuk to Luke’s story of Zacchaeus. It is interesting to note that there are a lot of assumptions made in the Gospel story based on appearances: Zacchaeus is an outcast because he is a tax collector, he is short, implicitly he is […]
An image to offer as we reflect on scripture: watching favorite movies for the “100th” time. We watch our favorite movies, even though we know the movie doesn’t change because there’s always something to pick up in the favorite story of old. The bible is no different. Even though we “know the finish” – God […]
Our readings today focused on teaching and knowing God. Most of our knowledge of God comes through Scripture – not always because the Scripture adequately describes God, but because Scripture provides insight into the person of God. Our Hebrew Scripture writer, Jeremiah, was trying to convince Israel that – while they were all going to […]
While the readings shared a common focus on the phenomenon of the Lament there was a thread in the gospel and the collect of the day that spoke to faith and being stewards of God’s bounty. As Bishop Holly reminded us today, our fear often keeps us from being faithful in our dealing with God. […]