Matthew 22:34-46
Spiritual journeys begin in very simple ways. Usually they begin by a dawning awareness of some sense of connection that runs deeper than we anticipate. Or they begin again because there is a desire to grow deeper in our life…
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Matthew 22:15-22
A couple of months ago the committee that tends to our website wanted to put on the website brief biographies, little bios of the clergy. Each of the clergy were interviewed. One of the questions was, “What is your favorite song?”…
Matthew 22:1-14
They say true love is priceless, but a gorgeous destination wedding in Venice lasting three days with parties and every luxury – not so much. At the end of the day George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin’s three-day wedding cost a total of $1.6 million…
Matthew 21:33-46
How do we use the gifts that have been given to us? That’s really what that parable is about in the gospel reading today. The parable that Matthew has in his gospel is trying to address a community of faith that is changing and shifting…
Exodus 17:1-7, Matthew 21:23-32
Have you ever spent a day with a cranky kid? A whiner? It might have started out OK but maybe they just got up on the wrong side of the bed. Perhaps they are getting ready for school and can’t decide what to wear…
Matthew 20:1-16
“No fair!” What parent hasn’t heard that from their child? And even if you’re not a parent, you’ve heard a child say it, “No fair! Tom invited Susie to his birthday party, and not me. No fair!” “She gets to stay up until nine o’clock and I don’t. No fair!”…
Matthew 18:21-35
I think that Jesus had a very particular way of making friends. Or you might say a very particular way of entering into relationships with folks. That’s quite different from the way you and I enter into relationships or the way you and I make friends…
<em>Matthew 18:15-20</em>
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Exodus 3:1-15, Matthew 16:21-28
So when was the last time God spoke to you? When was the last time you heard God’s voice? I know when I ask that question there are many kinds of answers. It depends on what you mean by the voice of God…
Matthew 16:13-20
There’s a spiritual practice called Lectio Divina. It’s a fancy Latin word for reading and engaging and letting the scriptures speak to you. And what does it say to you? The approach is really studying what this scripture is about…