Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light
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 […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Jun 5th, 2022
Longer Tables, Shorter Walls: All Nations Belong Acts 2:1-13, NRSV Reflections The disciples speak, and God accomplishes an intercultural miracle in which everyone hears the words in their own native language. God broke boundaries of culture and region in an intimate way by meeting people through the intimacy of their own home language. This is […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on May 1st, 2022
Vignettes of Hope: New Zeal by Joshua Jalandoon Acts 9:1-19a, NRSV Reflections There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Jul 11th, 2021
Tell It Slant – The Insignificant Acts of God Luke 13:10-21, NRSV Reflections What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true. — George MacDonald, Lilith Images of Kingdom of God: Mustard Seed, Yeast. I think the synagogue leader in the parable overlooks the miracle of healing, much like overlooking […]
Traveling Light Relay
Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light