Mindful Leader
Episodes
Monday Nov 30, 2015
Advent 1 -- Putting Scripture Front and Center
Monday Nov 30, 2015
Monday Nov 30, 2015
Text is from 2 Kings and Josiah's finding of the scripture. Most of the "exegesis" (reading out) is during the reading itself. Sermon contains elements of restatements from July ("Why") and earlier in November (David moving Ark to the center of political authority). Using suggested scriptures from Luther Seminary -- Narrative Lectionary.
Saturday Nov 28, 2015
Who Picked This Scripture ? God Did!
Saturday Nov 28, 2015
Saturday Nov 28, 2015
Thanksgiving week and the Narrative Lectionary gave me Isaiah 5: 1-7 and Isaiah 11: 1-9. I think the key to this reflection is the Henri Nouwen in the middle. It is the bridge ... but it is also the fact that this is week 52 of the church year (as it relates to the calendar). This is Christ the King Sunday. The title comes from how I open the sermon -- a scene of death and brokenness and devastation and then we have to preach on Thanksgiving? Huh? But to return to the Nouwen ... we are who we are as a result of the lives we have lived. We need to get away from this idea of selecting this and rejecting that. All of it is makes us who we are ...
Saturday Nov 28, 2015
Hosea: God has not given up on us ...
Saturday Nov 28, 2015
Saturday Nov 28, 2015
The Northern Kingdom has been conquered. But God continues to act in the role of loving parent and shows love even for the child who has spurned him. This has some elements of personal reflection on my time at Central UMC in Arlington, VA. Finding my voice and all of that ... but as much as anything it is a hopeful gesture that says that the God of the Hebrew Bible is a God of Love, Forgiveness and Mercy ...