Math is a funny thing. It seems to me, our culture privileges things that can be numerically quantified. For example, no matter the issue you will undoubtedly be able to find an article that has some “X out of Y” or “Z%” in the headline. The way to remain unaffected by these numbers is to…
Some weeks, the moment I read the Lectionary texts I know exactly where we need to go on Sunday. Some weeks it is a bit more of a search. This week was one of the latter. It wasn’t that I had no idea where to go but rather, I had an idea that wouldn’t come…
Weakness and forgiveness don’t really seem related to each other, at least not immediately. I’m not convinced I really drew the two ideas together very well this week but there was something about the juxtaposition of Romans 14:1-12 and Matthew 18:21-35 that grabbed me. What I was trying to do was help us see how…