Tag: Sunday
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Second Sunday in Advent
Along with many other congregations around the world, our congregation is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the composition of “Silent Night” this Advent season. This involves some attention to each of the verses of the song, and using some new music composed for the occasion that we are struggling a bit to learn, and some […]
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Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gratitude is realizing that what you have is enough. -Anonymous
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Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
We didn’t even begin to talk about everything we wanted to in class. It was “New Song Sunday” in worship, so we sang lots of new songs, not necessarily brand new, but new-to-us. [This is one:] And we heard that “the kingdom of God is at hand” is something like … when you’re having a […]
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Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Our class couldn’t help noticing the relevance of the story Jesus tells in Luke 16:19-31 to our own world. Today, as then, some people interpret material success as a sign of God’s favor. Today, as then, some people believe that anyone who’s destitute, suffering, sick, whatever, is that way because they’ve made bad choices, because […]
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Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In class this morning, we went through as many of the possibilities of meaning of the three parables we’d read in Matthew 13 as we could think of. Lots of different things occurred to us: we should be careful about just taking whatever “comes up” – maybe it isn’t good for us! Recalling that Jesus […]
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Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
This morning in our class we reviewed the possible readings of Matthew 12:1-14, and then tried to think about what those different readings might mean for us. I had to point out that in the first story of the pair, Jesus compares himself and his disciples to David and David’s men, and to the priests […]
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Seventh Sunday of Easter
In class, we ended up on a review of the large arc of Biblical narrative: God creates all of humanity (Adam & Eve); God saves all of humanity (through Noah); God elects a particular people (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob – Israel, including anyone from Egypt who wants to throw in their lot with those children of […]
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Third Sunday of Easter
It is a gray, rainy day in southern Indiana, with LOTS of birds about. In class this morning, we agreed that John 21:15-25 has something to do with Jesus setting Peter up to be “head of the church” going forward. But we wanted to see more than that historical or traditional message. Because everyone seemed […]
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First Sunday in Lent
We are starting to see the sun. In class, we were not sure that the disciples in Joppa expected Peter to do anything miraculous when they sent for him in Lydda. We thought they needed consolation, and were reaching out for pastoral care. And we were not sure that Peter thought he could “do” anything […]
Matters of Interpretation 