Devoted & Devoured
1 Kings 17:8-16, Mark 12:38-44
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 2009 Pentecost 23B
The past month or two the readings from the gospel of Mark have been an unfolding drama – we’ve been following Jesus as he and his disciples traveled from the areas outside of Israel – foreign lands, unclean places, with wretched people – [...]
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8 Nov
Devoted & Devoured
6 Oct
What God Has Joined
What God Has Joined
Mark 10:2-16
The audio from this sermon can be found at www.eflock.org.
Grace and Peace to you in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Today we heard a hard word from Jesus concerning divorce and remarriage. As I prepared for this sermon, many of my colleagues as well as myself, wondered how [...]
3 Jul
Bozo the Clown Dies
A sad day for my childhood. I remember coming home from school and watching that ping-pong ball game and hoping to see someone win the “crisp one hundred dollar bill.”
11 Jun
Thrifty
In an article that David Brooks of the NYT recently wrote the rate of debt and spending in the U.S. is compared to the vice of smoking. He sees the need to go after the institutions that promote debt in the same way advocacy groups have gone after tobacco companies. An interesting read. One sentence [...]
