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Year B Proper 23: Some novel assistance
Some further deliberations on the rich young man gospel (Mark 10: 17-31), with help from a Nick Hornby novel.* (Sunday sermon spoiler alert!): There’s a novel by Nick Hornby which I read some years ago called How to be Good. … Continue reading
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Tagged How to Be Good, Jesus, Mark 10:17-31, Nick Hornby, novel, rich young man, sermon
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Year B Proper 23: Poor little rich boy
“No one is good but God.” It was a warning. It was the truth. The rich young ruler had plenty of responsibilities weighing him down like heavy garments, like fur rugs and gold chains. He was weary; he was worried. … Continue reading
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Tagged Jesus, Mark 10:17-31, rich young ruler, Year B Proper 23
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Miracles
“He went to a town called Nain, and hid disciples and a large crowd went with him. As he approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Office, faith, Jesus, lectionary, Luke 7:1-17, miracle, Resurrection, widow of Nain
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Year B Proper 21: salted with fire
It was bedtime, so I gave the fire a stir to make sure it really was dying down, and of course, as fires are wont to do when stirred up, it sprang back into life. So the cat and I … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, disciples, fire, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Mark 9:38-50, salt, Year B Proper 21
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Year B Proper 20: mixed motives
We are complicated creatures, we humans. We can hear a dogmatic statement that “whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all,” and right away, we can begin competing to come last, to be the … Continue reading
Who do you say that I am?
free speaker, freedom fighter, freak, felon, rabble rouser, innocent, manipulator, incarnation, martyr-maker, messianic prophet, faker, visionary, revisionist preacher, pacifist, agitator, egocentric, faithful saviour, Son of God, Son of Man, who do you say I am?
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Tagged Jesus, Mark 8:27-38, Year B Proper 19
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Year B Proper 18: the cynical God?
On Saturday night, I suggested that Jesus was sounding a bit cynical last week, you know, about the whole hypocrisy thing over the whole handwashing thing, and the whole dirty defiled human heart thing … This week, he could be … Continue reading
Did Jesus get it wrong?
That’s the question that preachers often wrestle with when this story comes up. The story of the Syro-Phoenician woman, which should be called the story of the mother; because it is not for herself that this woman challenges and begs … Continue reading
Year B Proper 17: preaching the Song of Songs
Perhaps the most bewildering question about the Song of Solomon, or the Song of Songs, or Canticles – the book has gone by many names – is how it ended up in the Bible, a sacred text. Historical criticism insists … Continue reading
What is it to you?
Every day. Every day I confess my sins, my sinfulness. Every day. But Job asks, “If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity?” Yes, Job is feeling reckless; that recklessness that hold hands with despair, … Continue reading
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Tagged confession, Daily Office, God, Job, lectionary, sin
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