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Year C Proper 5: A Sermon for #WearOrange Sunday
A boy died in Zarephath, and his mother and Elijah cried out to God in anger at the injustice, in bitterness at the waste of life, saved by a miracle and spent so soon. Another mother’s son died in Nain, … Continue reading
Year C Proper 5: if I make my bed in the grave
The fact that the stories we hear today, which echo one another so clearly that these two women might have been related, one the great-great grandmother of the other, a sister several times removed; the fact that these stories revolve … Continue reading
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Tagged 1Kings 17:17-24, Biblical widows, Elijah, Jesus, Luke 7:11-17, Megan McKenna, psalm 139, Psalm 146, raising the dead, widow of Nain, widow of Zarephath
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Raising the dead
They say that Elijah raised a fatherless child, stretched out corpselike over his body, breathing for him, with him, breathing until his new life began. His mother, from then on, developed a habit of peering over his shoulder into the … Continue reading
Year B Proper 27: All
Naomi had lost everything. She had nothing left to lose, nowhere left to go but home, no one on whom to lean, on whom she had a claim. So she gave it all up, sent her daughters-in-law away, tore up … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Kings 17:7-24, Elijah, loss, Mark 12:38-44, Naomi, Ruth, widow of Zarephath, widow's mite, worship
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