Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light
Posted in Sermon Notes on Apr 29th, 2014
Jesus Appears to Thomas John 20:19-31, NRSV Reflections It is not as a boy that I believe in Christ and confess him, but my hosanna has passed through a great furnace of doubts. — Fyodor Dostoevskyfrom an entry in his personal notebook Competing realities: Our own introspection vs outside world New reality for disciples after […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Apr 25th, 2014
Because God is Love John 20:1-18, NRSV Reflections We show hospitality to strangers not merely because they need it, but because we need it, too. The stranger at the door is the living symbol and memory that we are all strangers here. This is not our house, our table, our food, our lodging; this is […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Apr 17th, 2014
Series: Lord of Lent The Crucified King John 12:12-27; 19:16b-22, NRSV Reflections And when the story does turn the world upside down, or the order of nature anyway, by telling us that Jesus lives again, it isn’t suggesting that he didn’t really die, or that we won’t really die. The happy ending makes a promise […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Apr 13th, 2014
Series: Lord of Lent Trial Before Pilate, Part 2 John 19: 1-16a, NRSV Reflections I’ve often thought… that if I’d been a journalist in the Holy Land at the time of our Lord’s ministry, I should have spent my time looking into what was happening in Herod’s court. I’d be wanting to sign up Salome […]
Posted in Sermon Notes on Apr 6th, 2014
Series: Lord of Lent Trial Before Pilate John 18: 28-40, NRSV Reflections Every call to worship is a call into the Real World…. I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I’m always in danger of losing my grip on […]
Traveling Light Relay
Down by the riverside I laid my burdens down and I'm travelin' light