The Last Straw
Matthew 2: 1-12
Epiphany, Common Lectionary Year A
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Introduction, scripture and story
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Today being this last Sunday of Lectionary year A,
it’s our last chance to keep company with
Matthew and his Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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So, invoking the language of indictment,
let me at first issue this confession of guilt
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I’ve said this before on the Sunday that falls closest to Remembrance Day; that I feel ill equipped to speak, because I am part of the “privileged” generation for whom “War” has been long ago, or far away.
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By now you know the reading is from the
most tricky book in the Bible: Revelation.
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It all boils down to this…. Love
I don’t quite know what’s happening to my sermon prep these days.
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You HAVE to go with us
…the demand Moses makes of God “You have to go with us!”-
is one that is “for our times”,
and I wholeheartedly agreed.
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A Conversation about Gratitude
This gospel healing story is one many of us learned as children,
when we accepted the miracle as a ‘Jesus-y’ normal thing to do, but we were likely subjected to a bit of Sunday school teacher moral finger wagging…
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A Vineyard and the Little Red Hen.
The only safe place to be in the telling of that story was at Jesus feet among the crowd watching a “seer,” a prophet, at work,calling out the hypocrisy
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Today being this last Sunday of Lectionary year A,
it’s our last chance to keep company with
Matthew and his Gospel of Jesus Christ. -
So, invoking the language of indictment,
let me at first issue this confession of guilt -
I’ve said this before on the Sunday that falls closest to Remembrance Day; that I feel ill equipped to speak, because I am part of the “privileged” generation for whom “War” has been long ago, or far away.
-
By now you know the reading is from the
most tricky book in the Bible: Revelation. -
It all boils down to this…. Love
I don’t quite know what’s happening to my sermon prep these days.
-
You HAVE to go with us
…the demand Moses makes of God “You have to go with us!”-
is one that is “for our times”,
and I wholeheartedly agreed. -
A Conversation about Gratitude
This gospel healing story is one many of us learned as children,
when we accepted the miracle as a ‘Jesus-y’ normal thing to do, but we were likely subjected to a bit of Sunday school teacher moral finger wagging… -
A Vineyard and the Little Red Hen.
The only safe place to be in the telling of that story was at Jesus feet among the crowd watching a “seer,” a prophet, at work,calling out the hypocrisy