Living by the Word - September, 2012

Living by the Word

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Mark 10:2–16

Sep 25, 2012 by Kathy Wolf Reed

One summer when I was a children’s camp counselor at a Presbyterian camp in northern Indiana, I spent long days listening to what we counselors affectionately referred to as nonstop “wubbins questions.”

“Wubbins if I don’t know how to swim?”

“Wubbins if a bear comes into our cabin?”

Living by the Word

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Numbers 11:4–6, 10–16, 24–29; Mark 9:38–50

Sep 18, 2012 by Brant S. Copeland

My dad was a pastor. After serving in World War II, he went to college on the G.I. Bill and then on to seminary. Like other mainline denominations, the Presbyterian Church was in full growth mode back then, and clergy ranked high in polls among the nation’s most trusted and respected professionals.

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Proverbs 31:10–31

Sep 11, 2012 by Brant S. Copeland

Those of us who follow the lectionary have encountered the industrious woman of Proverbs 31 many times. Every three years she appears with her wool and flax, her distaff and spindle, her keen eye for both fashion and a good deal, her open hand to the poor, and her penchant for providing her husband bragging rights at the city gates. But we haven’t always welcomed her.

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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Mark 8:27–38

Sep 04, 2012 by Christopher A. Henry

Even though I grew up in a church manse, am the son of a minister and was raised by congregations of wonderful Christian believers, I had not heard the question until the summer after my junior year of high school. I remember being confused and slightly put off by the way in which it was asked. I remember the steady, waiting gaze of those sitting across from me in the circle.