All Posts for September, 2009

Blogging Toward Sunday

Is it lawful...?

Job 1:1, 2:1-10; Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12; Mark 10:2-16

Sep 28, 2009 by A. Katherine Grieb

Beginning preachers often assume that only after they have built up the trust of the congregation by assuring them of God's lovingkindness will they have earned the right to deliver the harder words of scripture.

Blogging Toward Sunday

A danger to the community?

Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29; James 5:13-20; Mark 9:38-50

Sep 22, 2009 by A. Katherine Grieb

Preachers who glance at this Gospel lesson and contemplate the delights of contracting swine flu just before Sunday could be forgiven, but a second look reveals an opportunity to teach about Christian community and behaviors that imperil it.

Blogging Toward Sunday

Like a child

Proberbs 31:10-31; James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a; Mark 9:30-37

Sep 14, 2009 by Glenn Mitchell

“These little ones taking milk are like those on their way to the Kingdom.”

Blogging Toward Sunday

Jesus Christ the apple tree

Proberbs 1:20-33; James 3:1-12; Mark 8:27-38

Sep 08, 2009 by Glenn Mitchell

I recently purchased the 1800s' homestead where I’ve lived for the past five years, and I’m busy renovating the house and outbuildings. There are a few old apple trees on the three-and-a-half acre property, my favorite of which sends forth green every year from a trunk that appears 90 percent dead.

In the World

Obama's shocking speech to schoolchildren

Sep 08, 2009 by Steve Thorngate

President Obama spoke to students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia today, and his remarks were simulcast in schools around the country. The president’s message to American schoolchildren? Show up to school.