The scene of this mornings story: We are inside a synagogue, Jesus is teaching on the Sabbath, the leader of the synagogue is there - and while Jesus is teaching the author of Luke tells us that a bent over woman appeared.

As is so often in the parables we don't know a lot

I realized in preparing this week's reflection that in the last seven years I have not preached a single sermon on the Book of Hebrews. That's not a coincidence.  The letter to the Hebrews is a complicated book.  It's full of language that often offends

Will you please join me in prayer:  Into this holy moment we open ourselves to the words of your prophets and pray for the courage to respond with our lives. Amen.

I can still remember sitting on the porch of Beans and Brews on highland and 27^th south

I remember being in my internship in seminary and going through all kinds of questions and doubts about call and ministry and being really frustrated with the politics of the world and the senseless poverty that no seemed to notice and I would come to my weekly meetings with my mentor and

Kronos described chronological time. sequential time - it is time measured by clocks, hours, minutes and seconds. When we say I never feel like I have enough time in the day - we are talking Kronos time - when we are watching

You are the heartbeat. The sound of the beginning. You move in all things, you live in all things, you have your being in all things. So we attune our hearts and minds to this text and this time that we might recognize you more clearly, trust you more wholly and

Deuteronomy 26:1-11

Whats going on here: The Israelites are in the plains of Moab about to cross into the promised land -and they are receiving instruction about how to live once they arrive there - In this particular text the author is instructing them on worship: When you come into the land

I knew in worship team when we began talking about this service that I was creating for myself a bit of an ambitious task - bordering on the realm of crazy -trying to bring this transfiguration Sunday scripture together with this theme of evolution and religion while also participating

I am having a harder time each week knowing I only have a few weeks left before the sabbatical - I think I probably have three sermons in one this morning -

Prayer: In you there is no east or west, in you there is no rich or poor, in you

I am having a harder time each week knowing I only have a few weeks left before the sabbatical - I think I probably have three sermons in one this morning -

Prayer: In you there is no east or west, in you there is no rich or poor, in you