Have you ever been called? As rhetorical questions go, that isn’t a very good one. Everyone had been called. We have been called on the phone, called to the phone, called names, called to PASS THE BALL!!, called for dinner, the list is endless. We have been called by our parents, siblings, friends, partner(s), enemies, […]
Who gets called
I have been enjoying putting myself into biblical stories lately. Well, maybe “enjoying” isn’t the exact word because it isn’t always enjoyable, even when it is very valuable. I don’t do it very well. I find it difficult to imagine myself into these stories, or any stories for that matter. I don’t know if it […]
Called?
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 […]