In the passage from Ezekiel we’ll hear this Sunday morning, God commands the prophet to prophesy to the bones, and to say to them “O dry bones… I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.” This, I anticipate, is what I’ll need to hear tomorrow morning when the alarm rings an hour … Continue reading Message: Rise and Shine
Sermon: Sunday, March 2, 2008: Fourth Sunday in Lent
Texts: 1 Samuel 16:1-13 ; Psalm 23 ; Ephesians 5:8-14 ; John 9:1-41 In the name of Jesus, who heals us, confronts us, and calls us to change the world. Amen. Before I went to seminary I worked at the Harriet Tubman Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tubman, you recall, was a famous conductor in … Continue reading Sermon: Sunday, March 2, 2008: Fourth Sunday in Lent
Message: Spit in Your Eye
Of all the watery imagery used during this season of Lent in preparation for our thanksgiving for baptism at Easter, I have to say this week’s may be the oddest. A man born blind is healed by the waters of Jesus' ... spit. Now in my experience, “spit in your eye” signifies a confrontational – … Continue reading Message: Spit in Your Eye
By Proclamation 