August 9, 2020 10th Sunday After Pentecost/19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Scripture readings – Matthew 14: 22-33 Throughout my childhood, we would often visit my great-aunt’s house near the University of Texas in Austin. Her house was an old house, where my great-aunt …
August 5, 2020 Scripture – Genesis 29: 15-30 In this Old Testament story, Jacob meets Rachel and falls in love with her. He works for Rachel’s father, Laban, for seven years to “earn” the right to marry her. But on …
August 2, 2020 9th Sunday After Pentecost/18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Scripture readings – Matthew 14: 13-21 When I was a poor college student, back in the 70’s, I lived in the same town as my beloved grandparents. I was often in need …
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Scripture – Genesis 32: 22-31 This is one of the oddest stories in the entire Bible. Jacob is alone in the wilderness, he has taken his family to safety from his brother, Esau, and Jacob finds …
July 26, 2020 8th Sunday After Pentecost/17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Scripture readings – Matthew 13: 31-35, 44-54 In the somewhat jumbled readings for today, we get a whole list of parables from Jesus that he seemed to have delivered in a single …
July 22, 2020 Scripture – Psalm 105 If you read the verbs in Psalm 105 that are associated with what humans are supposed to do, they all sound really BUSY. If you read the verbs in the same Psalm that …
July 19, 2020 7th Sunday After Pentecost/16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Scripture reading – Matthew 13: 24-30, 36-43 This week’s sermon sure does sound a lot like last week’s sermon. Last week, the Scripture was a parable from Jesus about the sower and …
July 15, 2020 Scripture – Genesis 28: 10-19a Theme: When we have dreams, we always try to figure out what they mean. This has occurred with humans ever since history began. But as we attempt to figure them out, sometimes we …
July 12, 2020 6th Sunday After Pentecost/15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Scripture reading – Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23 When I was about seven years old, I was playing with my best friend, Jerry, at his house. We got bored – which is never …