Luke 2:1-14 a vast joke Christmas Eve December 24, 2012 It was 1930 when the young Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Cuba serving a German speaking congregation. Bonhoeffer was only 24 years old while on this visit to Cuba. Darkness has not yet descended upon...
Luke 1.39-55 Listen December 23, 2012 The Fourth Sunday in Advent Extraordinarily Ordinary Lately my favorite description of God is “inscrutable”, as in “my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways are your ways.” Today I would say there is on other thing...
Luke 3:1-6 December 9, 2012 Advent 2 Change I We do not always welcome those who claim to be bringing a message from God. It may be that we listen to them because we are polite or curious, or both. But it doesn’t take very long before you want to get out the room and...
Luke 21:25-36 Listen Opening wide the eyes of our heart The holiday season is upon us and it occurs to me that I should ask, so how ya doing? Did you make it through round one – Thanksgiving – with all the usual family drama? I’m thinking we should be more...
Mark 12:38-44 Watch Her There is an old maxim that if you want to preserve peace and harmony with your friends, family and co-workers avoid discussing three subjects: sex, religion and politics. I’d say that advice has pretty much abandoned. How could it be otherwise?...
Mark 10.17-31 “when you peel the onion” My mother didn’t ask me to help in the kitchen very often, in part because she didn’t like to cook and because she didn’t think there was much of a place for boys in her kitchen, which was fine for her sons. When she...
