It felt very strange today. I only missed one week, last week due to the ongoing generosity and kindness of these two wonderful congregations, but it felt like a month or maybe a year. We took a look at a portion of the book of Hebrews. I really like the book of Hebrews but it […]
Let’s take another look at wisdom
This week’s sermons seemed, rather unexpectedly, to turn into a conflation of August 19 (Pentecost 12) and last Sunday (Pentecost 16). The sermon title is not misleading, we did “take another look at wisdom” but we also spent some time talking about how wisdom can be used and misused as a word. I don’t know […]
Faith? Works? I refuse to pick one!
It crossed my mind that it might not be the wisest thing to think I have anything good to say about the whole “faith vs works” thing, after all it started the Reformation and I am most certainly not a Martin Luther, not even a Martin Luther-Lite (may I be forgiven the execrable “Lite” . […]