This week’s sermon title is “Let’s talk prayer” which means it could be preached virtually any Sunday 🙂 In this case, the Lectionary has us looking at Luke 11 where the so-called shorter Lord’s Prayer is found. The passage continues to verse 13 which means it includes a couple of Jesus’ funniest illustrations as well…
This Sunday we are looking at another choice; the choice between “being” and “doing.” Now I’m sure some of you out there are snorting and saying, “Look! Another false dichotomy.” and you wouldn’t be wrong. This is a false dichotomy or at the very least, a unnecessarily forced choice. The sermon comes from the well…
Today’s Gospel lesson includes one of the best known stories in the Bible; the story of the Good Samaritan. At its heart this story is one of inclusion. The story begins with someone, a lawyer, asking Jesus how to inherit eternal life. Jesus asks how the lawyer thinks it works. The lawyer says to love…