Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light
Posted in Sermon Notes on Jul 31st, 2022
Longer Tables, Shorter Walls: The Fuel of Inclusion: Compassion Matthew 9:35 – 10:23, NRSVUE Reflections If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are (people) who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Jul 10th, 2022
Longer Tables, Shorter Walls: Every Imperfection Belongs Acts 15:36-41, NRSVUE Reflections Mark stands between Barnabas and Paul, each reading Mark from a different and completely true angle. These perspectives on Mark could not be reconciled and neither could Paul and Barnabas. There is no tragedy here, simply the truth that the risks of ministry are […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Jul 3rd, 2022
Longer Tables, Shorter Walls: Every Gentile Belongs Acts 15:1-21, NRSVUE Reflections So let us repent of pretending to decide who is “truly” the people of God and who is not, of a politics of construction and policing mythological borders of peoplehood between ourselves and others who remember the God of Israel as their own. Such […]
Traveling Light Relay
Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light