Uncommon Prayers

This week the news cycle has been all aflutter about the Prime Minister speaking publicly about his faith. Some commentators have concentrat...

1 Samuel 16. 1-13; Psalm 23; Ephesians 5. 8-14; John 9. 1-41  I suppose a number of you have seen a shadow-play. The shadow-play takes...

Texts:  Isaiah 60.1-6; Psalm 72. 1-7; Ephesians 3.1-12; Matthew 2. 1-12  . . .  were we led all that way for Birth or Death?  There was a...

Genesis 17.1-7, 15-16; Psalm 22.23-31; Romans 4. 13-25; Mark 8.31-38  In the land of Israel and of Palestine there is a war. Despite the...

Haggai 2.1-9; Luke 20.27-38   When the word of the Lord came to Haggai, the leading families of Judah were in serious disrepair.  Their f...

Texts: Galatians 2.15-21; Luke 7.36-8.3 In the story we just heard, Jesus does not one, but two things that no self-respecting Jewish R...

Texts:  Zephaniah 3.14-20; Philippians 4.4-7; Luke 3.7-18 Like most all of the lections we read during Advent, the Scriptures for today...

Job 23.1-9, 16-17; Psalm 22; Hebrews 4.12-16; Mark 10.17-31   No matter whether we are rich or we are poor, there comes a time for many of u...