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Take up your mat
Jesus does not help the man to get to the water. Jesus does not need to buy into the system that has kept this man down for thirty-eight years. Jesus is the living water, and he has power to heal the man, and he does that; but he does more. He tells the man to take up his mat, and walk home. Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon
Tagged healing, Jesus, John 5:1-9, Revelation 21:10-22:5, sabbath, Year C Easter 6
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Your faith
A sermon for hard times. The readings include Mark 5:21-43, in which a woman with a 12-year chronic condition sneaks up to the hem of Jesus robe to be healed, and a child is restored to her parents. There is … Continue reading
Posted in homily, lectionary reflection, meditation, sermon, story
Tagged faith, hard times, healing, Jesus, Mark 5:21-43, miracle, Year B Proper 8
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Facing God
All that the leader of the synagogue really needed to do, was to say, “Amen.” Continue reading
Pray
Pray, not for an end to grief; tears fall, the waters of a hard labour.
Posted in haiku, poetry, prayer
Tagged ferguson, grief, healing, loss, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice
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PTSD Jesus
When he was raised, he bore the marks, which must mean he remembered. Then does each adulterous kiss make him wince at its betrayal; each flash of the needle, of the knife make him flinch? Does he recoil at the … Continue reading
Year A Advent 1: starting in the middle
In the middle of the story, in the middle of the day, when two women are in the middle of a studied silence over the millstone. They are not speaking. One of them is not speaking so hard, she disappears. … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon preparation
Tagged family, forgiveness, healing, left behind, Matthew 24:36-44, Noah, regret, relationships, resentment, the flood, Year A Advent 1
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Religious rituals and summer Sunday attendance
Two days after my mother died, at half past five in the morning, I heard a strange noise outside my bedroom window, the window of the spare bedroom in my parent’s house. It was a rasping, grinding, rolling, grunting, sighing … Continue reading
Posted in sermon
Tagged 1 Kings 18:20-39, centurion, church attendance, community, Elijah, family, funeral, healing, Hebrews 10:25, Jesus, Luke 7:1-10, religious ritual, ritual, summer
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Healthcare and healing
It is tempting, as many have observed, to link this Sunday’s readings to this Thursday’s Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Politics from the pulpit are tricky. The need to be prophetic and the need to … Continue reading
Year B Epiphany 6: people first
I mentioned earlier this week the ecumenical lectionary group that I am blessed to attend each Tuesday morning, and my colleagues’ influence on my understanding of this Sunday’s readings. A few days later, I am still grappling with one of the effects of hearing, … Continue reading
Posted in lectionary reflection, sermon preparation
Tagged 2 Kings 5, healing, Jesus, leper, leprosy, Mark 1: 40-45, person-first language, Year B Epiphany 6
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