Tag: present moment
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Fourth Sunday of Easter
[A sermon delivered at a small Southern Indiana church] The NT reading this morning is Revelation 4. It’s the opening of the vision of heaven reported by the author we know as John in the book we know as “Revelation.” That word in Greek is “apocalypse,” a word that means “uncovering,” so the image there…
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Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
A longer sermon, developed on the base of an earlier one on Joshua 5:13-15, that actually needed to be delivered on this particular Sunday. The Hebrew Scripture for today is Joshua 5:13-16. It’s an unusual text for a Sunday morning. For one thing, it’s unusual to hear anything from Joshua in church, especially if the…
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24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Continuing with the exploration of the book of Joshua, this brief and cryptic episode of Joshua’s meeting with “a man … with a drawn sword” from Joshua 5:13-16 caught my attention. It is some kind of vision – but what does this vision mean?
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19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
One of the texts in the Revised Common Lectionary for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost is Isaiah 1:1,10-20. The text is an accusatory speech by God, in the context of what sounds like a long legal argument, that the prophet Isaiah relays to the people of Judah and particularly of Jerusalem in the 8th century…
Matters of Interpretation 