Kings—a perpetual disappointment
This week we get the annual reminder that kings are always a disappointment. They are human, after all. But more than that, they, above all others, are not allowed to be. They are supposed to be better...
View ArticleA life of service and grace—for Proper 29B
For Sunday Proper 29B Collect Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of...
View ArticleThe power we won’t acknowledge
When Satan tries to tempt Jesus in the wilderness, he invites him to use power. Not power that Satan has to give or Jesus has a right to use, but power Jesus could use. Power that is within his...
View ArticleThe Means Are the Ends—for Lent 1C
For Sunday Lent 1C Collect Almighty God, whose blessed Son was led by the Spirit to be tempted by Satan: Come quickly to help us who are assaulted by many temptations; and, as you know the weaknesses...
View ArticleWe need to wrestle with the desire to control
This Week: Lent 1C Gospel: Luke 4:1-13 The first Sunday in Lent is about temptation — an idea that people are used to engaging with the season. Particularly those of us who choose a discipline to...
View ArticleTo the glory of God
On power and communion in loveLent 1C | Luke 4:1-13 drewdowns · To the glory of God (Lent 1C) The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday with an invitation: one that invites us to the observance of a...
View ArticleIs Jerusalem the only place a prophet isn’t safe?
Jesus says that it is impossible for a prophet to die outside of Jerusalem. This is a bit of rhetorical flourish, isn’t it? It has to be! I suspect our mind gets caught on the notion of impossibility....
View ArticleThese Pharisees are not good enough — for Lent 2C
For Sunday Lent 2C Collect O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to...
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