It is the season for gifts. It is easy to get caught up in gifts at the expense of everything else about this delightful time of the year. I suspect most, if not all, of us have had those Christmas seasons where we realized we were totting up what we got, what we gave, and […]
One body
So why do you think Paul uses “body” as a metaphor for the church? There are several reasons I’m sure but I suspect one of the biggest ones is that “body” is something that is common to all of us. In today’s Epistle lesson, 1 Corinthians 12:12-31, Paul makes good use of the notion of […]
Hey! It fits!
There is something almost universal in the experience of getting a gift, Christmas or otherwise, that doesn’t fit. Sometimes the lack of fit is physical, such as when the giver forgets that you are no longer 12 but are actually 15 and quite a lot larger than you were. Sometimes the problem of fit is […]