I like work. I like to work.* I realize that not everyone feels the same way and that’s okay but there are a couple of observations I’d like to make about work. First, work is not a necessary evil because work is not evil. Some work is evil, some is foolish, some is dangerous, etc….
This section of Matthew is filled with questions. As I think I mentioned last week, these are a particular kind of question, the “gotcha” kind. In Matthew 22.15-46 Jesus deals with: a combined question about taxes from the Pharisees and Herodians, a question about marriage from the Sadducees and a question about the Law from…
“Let me go!” A common request heard in families with more than one child. There is something about older siblings that seems to lead to opportunities for the younger siblings to ask, or shout, “Let me go!” It isn’t only siblings, uncles, or “uncles,” or cousins, or . . . there seems to be an…
Today is Remembrance Sunday. It isn’t Remembrance Day, that’s November 11, of course, but St. Mark’s has a tradition of marking Remembrance Day on the last Sunday before November 11. As I read the texts for this Sunday, in more than one translation, one word kept coming up for me, “vindication.” Vindication is one of…
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’s texts are linked together, at least somewhat, by three different stories about what it means to be called, or more properly, “called.” This is more than getting a phone call or a text to come over and hang out. The calls we looked at today are the calls God makes to people. There…