I kick off both sermons with a statement something to the effect of, ‘there are some difficult words in Scripture,” and there are. However, I am not talking about those words difficult to translate from Hebrew, Greek, and very occasionally Aramaic. I am not talking about wrestling with the Greek grammatical case able to say, […]
All means all
It seems for lots of us, the shorter the word the easier it is to misunderstand or even misuse it. Today we are talking about what the word “all” might mean for us in a particular context. The Lectionary’s Epistle lesson for this Sunday is 1 Timothy 2:1-7, we focused primarily on the first three […]
The same but different
One of the most familiar passages of Scripture in all of Scripture is the Lord’s Prayer. About the only passage I can think of which might be better known is Psalm 23. I have a recollection of when I was growing up we recited the Lord’s Prayer in school, I am disinclined to weigh in […]