Sunday Bible

A life of grace and the story of Zacchaeus

I wasn't preaching on the 27th so here's one I prepared earlier. Its from about this time last year and looks at the story of Bartimaeus

Another reading from Luke, the upside down gospel. What does an upside down reading of the parable of the widows and the unjust judge offer us?

I wasn't preaching on Sunday, so here's one I prepared earlier. it's from about this time last year and it's about Jesus and his comments on divorce.

Who would invite a slave to sit and be served? No one? Except we are reading Luke, the gospel that turns the world upside down...

The cracking story of the rich man and Lazarus and what it means to really live!

Looking at the first letter to Timothy and what it means to pray for everyone

The lost sheep and the lost coin, another couple of stories where Luke's gospel upends the way we run the world.

Unless you hate your folks, give away all your possessions and carry a cross, you can't be a disciple of Jesus. Seems pretty straightforward. If we're not planning on doing these things what does that mean for the rest of us?

Luke gives us a story (Luke 14:1, 7-14) about who to invite and who not to invite to dinner. What sense can we make of it today?

What was the significance of Jesus healing a woman on the sabbath?

What did Jesus mean when he said that he didn't come to bring peace to the earth?

What might Jesus have meant when he says in Luke that we should expect the unexpected?

We explore a passage from the ancient book of Deuteronomy and see how it relevant to our situation nearly 3000 years later

What did Jesus mean us to do when he taught us to pray? What does it mean that all who ask will receive?

If one way of reading the Gospel of Luke is as a discipleship manual, what can this little story of Mary and Martha teach us?

A reading of the story of the Samaritan as an exploration of how to respond to existential fear and pain 

Jesus sent disciples out from town to town, house to house. But that was first century Palestine, what does that mean for disciples today? 

We are free but we don't always live like we are. Paul's letter to the Galatians invites us to see freedom as a experience of interconnectedness 

Jesus, Legion, the man, the pigs. What are we to make of it all?

At a time when we are talking about fake news, alternative facts and truthiness, what did Jesus mean when he talked about the Spirit of truth?

It is Pentecost Sunday and the disciples begin to understand their relation to god in newer and deeper ways 

Last week of the Easter season and Jesus is praying that his disciples and all who follow might be one. What did he mean?

We're still in the Easter season, still unpacking the incarnation and the resurrection. This time through the lens of John 14:23-29 BONUS! following the sermon, The Spire Quartet singing an ancient Icelandic hymn.

What does the world 'glory' mean in John's gospel? And what about the meaning of 'love'? how can we experience these terms when we are so used to hearing them over and over? What does it mean to love?