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“Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.” (All Souls – Year C)
Wisdom 3:1-9; Psalm 24; Rev 21:1-6a; Luke 6:20-31 “Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.” It’s funny how close weeping and laughing can be sometimes. I remember those times when our kids were young. We’d be rough housing and having a wonderful time. The giggles of a baby and a young child
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Small Towns – Blessing or Curse? (25 Proper Year C)
Jer 31:27-34; Psalm 119:97-104; 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5; Luke 18:1-8 Living in a small-town setting can be a blessing because, especially in previous generations, survival sometimes depends upon the kindness of your neighbors. Some amazing acts of caring and generosity happen in small towns. A small town is a place where you can actually make eye
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Prophecy of Hope (24 Proper Year C)
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7; Psalm 66:1-12; 2 Timothy 2:8-15; Luke 17:11-19 I don’t know how many of you remember the “cold war” as it was called prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. I remember back in grade school – 1965 through 1972 – that alarm would go off; not the fire alarm,
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How Shall We Sing The Lord’s Song In A Strange Land? (23 Proper C)
Lamentations 1:1-6; Psalm 137; 2 Timothy 1:1-14; Luke 17:5-10 “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” Habakkuk 2:4. That’s the final verse from today’s reading from the prophet Habakkuk, the alternate reading from what we call track 2 of today’s lectionary. We may not have used the reading from Habakkuk, but
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Turning to hope instead of despair. (22 Proper Year C)
Jer 32:1-3a,6-15; Ps 91:1-6,14-16; 1 Tim 6:6-19; Luke 16:19-31 When I looked at the lectionary for today, I was a little disappointed that we were following track 1 instead of track 2. Track 2 included the reading from Amos, and that reading seemed to fit perfectly with the message of the 1st letter of Timothy
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The children of this age are shrewder in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light (21 Proper Year C)
Sermon for 20 Proper Year C – Sunday, September 21, 2025 Jeremiah 8:18-9:1; Psalm 79:1-9; 1 Timothy 2:1-7; Luke 16:1-13 Today’s scripture readings from Jeremiah and from the Gospel of Luke are a twin lightning bolt of prophetic wisdom, and looking at the political landscape in the world around us, we need some prophetic wisdom right
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Repentance is the River of Life (20 Proper Year C)
Sermon for 19 Proper Year C – Sunday, September 14, 2025 Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28; Psalm 14, 13-18; 1 Timothy 1:12-17; Luke 15:1-10 Repentance. I’ve always been a sucker for a certain kind of movie. In fact, my daughter once turned to me with a mix of amusement and frustration in her voice and said, “Dad,
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Hate is a very strong word (19 Proper Year C)
Sermon for 18 Proper Year C – Sunday, September 7, 2025 Jeremiah 18:1-11; Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18; Philemon 1-21; Luke 14:25-33 Hate. Hate is a strong word. I remember my 6th grade teacher, who “hated” the world hate more than anyone else I knew at my tender young age of eleven. In fact, whenever one of