Can you imagine a total stranger coming up to you, sticking his fingers into your ears, spitting and touching your tongue? And your own friends brought you to him! It wasn't’ quite what the people had in mind when they brought their friend to Jesus. All they asked was for Jesus to…
The days are coming,” declares the Lord. The days weren’t so great for the people of Judah. It helps to have a bit of history. The kingdom of Babylon was on the rise. Nebuchadnezzar, the gifted war general and king, had defeated Egypt and was now looking to gobble up Israel.…
Jesus Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Jesus Christ is risen. And life can never be the same again.
Three women went to the cemetery early that morning on the first day of the week expecting to find a body. They were going to finish some unfinished business. …
Such a Sunday it is. On the liturgical calendar, it is the third Sunday after the Epiphany. On the calendar of festival days, it is the feast of St. Titus, pastor and confessor. On the synodical calendar it is “Sanctity of Life” Sunday. And of course, on the calendar of American…
Words are powerful. They don’t seem like much when you stop and think about them. Sound waves pushing on air molecules that bounce off each other like billiard balls and eventually find their way into ear holes and bounce off eardrums. Or shapes and squiggles in the form of letters on a…
Linus Pauling died of cancer this past Friday. As a chemist I remember him as the father of molecular biology and much of modern chemistry. Most of you will likely remember him as the guy who promoted megadoses of vitamin C as the preventative and cure of everything from the common cold to…
Imagine a bread that would not only fill your hunger but would cause you never to hunger again. I’m not speaking here about whole-grain health food that helps the digestive processes, or holds out the promise of long life, or simply “is good for you”. I’m speaking about a bread that promises eternal…
Bread embodies and incorporates everything of life. The vitalities and energies of life are all baked and incorporated into bread. Bread contains the energies of the sun and the rain, the vitalities of the soil and the seed. In bread there is the plow of the farmer who sows seed and harvests…
There are only two ways of life. There is life in the Law and there is life in the Gospel. Life in the Law means saving your life now only to lose it forever. Life in the Gospel means losing your life now only to save it forever. The Law and…
And they went into Capernaum; and immediately on the sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and he taught.
If you wanted to find Jesus on a Sabbath day you went to the synagogue. The Sabbath was a holiday, a holy day. “Observe the Sabbath by keeping it holy.” Deuteronomy said that…