Supposedly true story; not mine, but supposedly true nevertheless. Father is reading age-appropriate Bible stories to young Andrew, about five years old. One story is about faith. “Do you have faith, Andrew?” father asks. Andrew thinks for quite a while, then answers, “No, I have toys!” It’s faintly funny from a child, until you think […]
Continue Reading: The 8th Sunday after Pentecost; Luke 12:13–21Category Archives: Gerry Mueller
One 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 21:1-19A story is told about St. Teresa of Avila comes to mind. One day, travelling in an ox cart, her cart hits a rock, overturns, and catapults Teresa into a thornbush. Getting up, extricating herself, and brushing the dirt off her habit, she looks up at the heavens, and loudly shouts, “God! If this is […]
Continue Reading: The 3rd Sunday in Lent; Luke 13:1–9The reading from Paul’s 1st Letter to the Corinthians is a part of an argument he is having with some members of that church who are claiming there is no resurrection of the dead. That would be in accord with the Greek metaphysical world view of the time, and the Corinthians were Greeks. We rarely […]
Continue Reading: The 6th Sunday after Epiphany; 1 Corinthians 15:12-20Let me throw out a proposition, not entirely mine, but one that I first thought about quite a few years after reading a book published by “Upper Room” titled “”Too Much Holly, Not Enough Holy? – Searching for Christmas”. It is a one year diary starting at Epiphany, the end of one Christmas, and the […]
Continue Reading: Christmas Day; John 1:1–14(–17),Luke 2:1-20 -(35)