Genesis 28:10-19a; Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24. Today as we continue to journey through Genesis we land at the place where God repeats to Jacob a promise made to Abraham. God speaks…
Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67; Song 2:8-13; Romans 7:15-25a; Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 I don’t know about you, but I often find when I’m reading my Bible that a verse jumps out…
Genesis 22:1-14; Psalm 13 It’s a hard one, this story of the sacrifice of Isaac, eh? I know as a reader that this story has been troubling scholars since the…
Genesis 21:8-21; Jeremiah 20:7-13; Romans 6:1b-11; Last month, I hope, you heard the story of Paul preaching to the Athenians at the Areopagus, where he says, “I know you are…
Genesis 18:1-15 Today is a day between days. Today is a bit like an “Easter Saturday” of June. It’s not a “Holy Saturday,” the day between God’s Friday and Resurrection…
Genesis 12:1-9; Psalms 33:1-12; Romans 4:13-25; Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 Hello! It’s perhaps an odd way to begin, but it’s kind of an odd setting that the Lectionary has offered us…
Genesis 1:1-2:4a; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; We believe. According to Hebrews 11:1 our faith is the assurance of things hoped for [and] the conviction of things not seen: faith is the…
Numbers 11:23-30; Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:27-30; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11. Last week when I was at Pomonal I spoke with them about Ascension as a forgotten festival. Did Julie take you…
Acts 1:1-11; Ephesians 1:15-23; Luke 24:36-53. Ascension is one of those days in the liturgical calendar that many Uniting Church congregations appear to overlook. It’s there marked on my lectionary;…
Acts 17:22-31; Psalms 66:8-20. In today’s reading from Acts 17 we earwig on Paul’s address to the Areopagus on the topic of an unknown god. Paul is both a scholar…