Many cultures practice tithing, not just Jews and Christians, giving a fraction of each year’s crops and income for holy use. It recognizes that all comes to us from God, and it is appropriate to return something for God’s work. Tithing is not a foreign idea in our Anglican Christianity, even if it is observed […]
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Sunday, August 28, 2022: Jeremiah 2:4-13 Luke 14:1, 7-14 I remember one very hot and exhausting evening probably around ten years ago, I was part of a small group that had just helped friends with a move — or not even close friends, somewhere between an acquaintance and friend, and now, one of them is […]
Continue Reading: Where is the Lord (in the banquet hall)?: The Twelfth Sunday after PentecostI usually don’t do “Show & Tell” as part of a sermon, but this rather ornate certificate, which normally lives on a wall of my home office, is relevant to today’s Gospel reading. It certifies that I was maade an “Officer of the Order of the Sons of Martha”. It says that this was granted […]
Continue Reading: The 6th Sunday after Pentecost; Luke 10:38-42One of the distinguishing marks of the Bible is its realism and compassion about human nature. There is no pretending in the Bible that biblical characters are any better than we are. Possibly, that’s because those people didn’t know they were going to be in the Bible! The people we meet in the Bible don’t […]
Continue Reading: The 3rd Sunday of Easter; John 21:1-19Closing out this wonderful project… There have been tragedies and challenges, but also some graces during this pandemic. One of those graces is that our congregational community has availed itself of various ways of connecting up, and growing in faith during these difficult months. One of those new projects and means of communication and discipleship […]
Continue Reading: Daily Bible Readings and Reflections for the Week of June 28, 2020