Category Archives: Matthew Kieswetter

Sunday, February 21, 2021: Genesis 9:8-17 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1:9-15 There have been a lot of interesting and helpful discussions about Lent recently. How do you do Lent when last year’s Lent never really stopped? (And related, how will we celebrate Easter if, like some predictions are saying, a third wave will hit us […]

Sunday, February 14, 2021 2 Kings 2:1-12 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Mark 9:2-9 I sat at my laptop early this week struggling with where to begin. In the background I had the stereo on, and found my thoughts wandering to the music. Eventually I realized that the song playing in that moment was “The Mercy Seat” […]

February 7, 2021: Isaiah 40:21-31 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 Mark 1:29-39 The gospel today takes off right after what we heard last week, where Jesus had gone to the synagogue, encountered a person possessed by an unclean spirit, and cast it out. And now here he and his little group is, leaving the synagogue, and, as […]

Sunday, January 31, 2021: Deuteronomy 18:15-20; 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Mark 1:21-28 Prophets. Idols. And Demons. The immediate applicability of these passages might, at first, seem hard to pin down. But then I think about how a mentor of mine who spent a number of years living in Africa, how he mentioned to me about how […]

Sunday, January 10, 2021: Genesis 1:1-5 Acts of the Apostles 19:1-7 Mark 1:4-11 I don’t know about you, but today it seems like we can really feel the limitations of the present moment. It’s hard for the internet to replicate the experience of the movement of turning and facing the font, the sound of the […]