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Lent 6 – Palm Sunday – John 12:12-16 Even though each Gospel’s version of the story differs slightly in its details, the general thrust of what we call the Palm Sunday entry of Jesus into Jerusalem marking the beginning of…
Yr B – Lent 5 – John 12:24-26 No tengo responsibilidades en absoluto! Such was my El Salvador mantra. In case you didn’t know, Cynthia and I have just returned from a week long mission awareness trip to El Salvador.…
Yr B ~ Lent 3 ~ John 3:16-21 I am a sinner and so are you. I know that’s not your typical United Church kind of statement, and I know that I’ve just risked a number of you instantly tuning…
Yr B ~ Lent 2 ~ John 2:13-22 Scripture passages like today’s are sometimes tricky because the story is really familiar for those of us who’ve been hanging around churches for a long time but the details really can change…
Yr B ~ Lent 1 ~ Mark 8:34-38 Mark Twain once said, “It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.” Today we get one of those…
Yr B ~ Transfiguration ~ Mark 9:2-9 [A monologue in the voice of Simon-Peter] Dear Diary. What a week it’s been! Six days ago I was walking along with Jesus and the gang and out of nowhere he asked what…
Yr B ~ Epiphany 5 ~ Mark 1:29-39 If you’ve been with us through January then by now you’re probably getting pretty adept at reading between the lines in the Gospel of Mark. We know that Mark writes very sparingly,…
Yr B ~ Epiphany 4 ~ Mark 1:21-28 Other gospels want us to be awestruck by Jesus. I think the writer of the Gospel according to Mark wants that too, but first he wants to make sure he’s got your…
Yr B ~ Epiphany 3 ~ Mark 1:14-20 Welcome to the shortest sermon in history! Don’t get your hopes up. I’m not talking about my sermon – I’m talking about the first one Jesus preached in Mark’s gospel. And even…
Yr B ~ Epiphany 2 ~ Mark 1:12-13 (off lectionary) Last week we started the season of Epiphany, which is all about awakening and seeing and realizing things, and we started our journey through the first chapter of the gospel…