There aren’t very many hotter topics in some religious circles than prayer. I feel it is only appropriate to mention that I did not take this topic due to any axes that required grinding but because a) the Lectionary had us looking at prayer; and b) due to its heat, prayer isn’t discussed as often…
This week’s sermons seemed, rather unexpectedly, to turn into a conflation of August 19 (Pentecost 12) and last Sunday (Pentecost 16). The sermon title is not misleading, we did “take another look at wisdom” but we also spent some time talking about how wisdom can be used and misused as a word. I don’t know…
Ah, communication. It is one of those things that we sometimes, erroneously, think we can opt out of. We sometimes think that what we communicate is of minimal importance . . . or of ultimate importance. We also sometimes think that the Bible has nothing to say about communication or talking or any of that…