Sermons from February 2025

This Sunday we continue in the Gospel of Luke, with a late Easter bringing more Sundays than usual between Christmas and Easter, we get a story new to the Narrative Lectionary. Remember John the Baptist? He’s back! Is Jesus really who we think is? Who our doctrine says? Who we expected him to be? Are we sure about him? If you ever wonder these things, fear not, you’re in good company. John the Baptist did too, and we’ll take a…

For the past four years I have had breakfast nearly every Friday with my friend and retired colleague Dan Schneider-Bryan. When we were in the Hebrew Bible all last fall, he’d ask me while chomping down his scrambled eggs and sausage, and with tongue firmly planted in cheek, “So… who dies this week?” Now that we’re in the Gospel of Luke, the question has softened a bit, and is “So… who does Jesus tick off this week?” Well, how about…

So here’s what. I don’t like rules. Never have. I often find them limiting and even suffocating. I also come from an antiestablishment breed. But at the same time, without, we perish. We have chaos and anarchy. I’m not a big fan of that either. So… quick story: In one of my theatrical directing classes in college, we had to tell a story of some kind with no dialogue. The point being that it was required to stage the story…