Reflections for

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Aug 30, 2015

Song of Solomon 2:8-13; Psalm 45:1-2, 6-9; (Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9; Psalm 15;) James 1:17-27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Blogging Toward Sunday

Neglecting James

Aug 27, 2012 by Wallace W. Bubar

I don’t know about you, but I find it challenging to preach on non-narrative texts. It’s easy to make a good story from the Gospels or the Old Testament come alive in a sermon. It’s a lot harder to do that with a theological treatise, so I tend to neglect preaching on the epistles.

Living by the Word

Sunday, September 2, 2012

James 1:17–27

Aug 21, 2012 by Wallace W. Bubar

It was called the six-point record system. In the Southern Baptist church of my childhood, the offering envelopes in the pews had the usual line for your name and the amount of your contribution.

Faith Matters

Deep messages

Language and love

Jun 15, 2010 by Stephanie Paulsell

When I read in the newspaper recently that the U.S. Navy had decided to lift its ban on women serving on submarines, I remembered a woman who told me a story about how she communicated with her husband when he was serving aboard a submarine in the 1970s.

Faith Matters

Old-fashioned love song

"Ah, you are beautiful"

Sep 22, 2009 by Stephanie Paulsell

It is autumn again, and life is speeding up. Students are back in school, classes are beginning and the fall programs of churches are in full swing. Wouldn’t it be good to find a spiritual discipline for these days that would remind us of the pace and the blessings of summer?

Living by the Word

Moral words, evil deeds

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Aug 25, 2009 by Thomas G. Long

For some reason, Mark, who managed to produce only 16 short chapters to tell the whole story of Jesus, decided to devote more than half of one of those chapters to an account of a food fight.

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