The word “reform” at its simplest is to form again, that is, to take what is scattered or disarrayed and return it to its original form. The word “reform”, when we are talking about it on Reformation Sunday, takes aspects of the definition above but adds the connotation that the current disarray is a bad…
Today is Reformation Sunday. This is a bigger thing for Presbyterians and Lutherans than for some other, perfectly fine, denominations. I like Reformation Sunday because in an alternate universe I am an historian and in this universe historical things interest me. I am grateful for an understanding of the context in which I find myself…
This Sunday we looked at calling and the kind of people that Jesus calls. As it turns out there are at least two kinds of calls. The first is the initial call that God extends to people. This is the one that some of us experienced when we were so young we barely remember it….