November 2018

Texts: 1 Kings 17:8-16; Hebrews 9:24-28; Mark 12:38-44 Is it right to call God an unrepentant meddler?  Technically to meddle means to interfere in other people’s matters without right or invitation.  You could argue that God, as author of…well… everything… has every right, and needs no invitation.  Furthermore, God answers to no one, so could God […]

Texts: Isaiah 25:6-9; Revelation 21:1-6a; John 11:32-44 If you take a walk in the forest of the Pacific Northwest and pay attention, you’ll see graves everywhere.  Not that people know what they’re seeing most of the time.  No, most of us will walk right past a forest grave without so much as a brief pause of

Texts: Jeremiah 31:31-34; Romans 3:19-28; John 8:31-36 Yesterday, on the Jewish Sabbath, another act of violence was perpetrated against a community of Jewish people gathered to worship God.  No one knows yet what precipitated the synagogue shooting, and no explanation will ever speak comfort to the deaths of innocent people.  We can only hope that this