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Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Eight -- John the Baptist -- Go Tell John -- 1030 version

Luke 7: 18-21 -- Go Tell John

John the Baptist has sent his men to see Jesus and ask him, if he is the one.  Jesus answers pointing to the ideas of trusting his senses and affirming John the Baptist focus on Fruitfulness.  

We have posted several of our musical offerings ... bells, congregational singing, and our praise band.  

Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Eight -- John the Baptist -- Go Tell John -- 900 version

 

Luke 7: 18-21 -- Go Tell John but more than that.  It is a moment of inviting John the Baptist to "trust" and advocating a ministry focused on fruitfulness.  

This podcast is the 9:00 Service .. 

January 29th, Ministry Moment -- Barbara Moeller

 

Barbara was a Interfaith Hospitality Network client several years ago.  IHN is now Family Promise but it is still providing the kind of love and Grace that Barbara addresses here.  This is a reflection on what it is like to be homeless.  

Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Six -- Sabbath and Today (with a brief reflection on Methodism)

 

This podcast includes my statement of the them, our prayer over our plates, Emily's exegesis before my sermon, and the sermon.  It also includes a brief commentary on the fact I/we reserve the right to critique the state (both Federal and Utah) on what it is, and perhaps is not, doing.  

The scripture is Luke 6 and mine is mostly on 1-11 but we read to 16.  Narrative Lectionary. 

Scripture will inform us, framed in Experience, Tradition and Reason

I probably should give this five minute reflection about once a year.  I do have a mistake or two in what I said, for example, Jesus was not only in conflcit with the religious but also the political.  I goofed that up.  

Scripture, experience, tradition and reason.  

Experience = individual traditon.

Tradition = corporate experience.  

All grounded in Scripture. 

Reminder and not discussed here, but Scripture is a function of Tradition.  

Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Six -- Peter makes himself vulnerable

 

This is from Psalm 90 and Luke 5.  

Emily Flemming and I are trying a little different approach.  We are going to read the other's scripture before the sermon with a teaching moment.  

This reflection is more from the Luke than the Psalm, but it gets to both.  I have been talking a little about Emotional Intelligence (EQ) of Jesus and how he has done, and offer Peter up here as a good example of how he has made himself open to the idea of possible change, and from that, a new vocation.  

Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Five -- Human Relations Sunday - Jesus preaches a Confrontational Sermon

We come back to the Luke 4 14-30 Passage a second time and build off of the where we were in Advent.  That sermon offered that Jesus knew who he was ... here he is inviting the congregation to expand the scope.  

Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Four -- Epiphany Sunday - John the Baptist

The reader on the Scripture Passages is Leigh Anne Duff -- and the scripture is Luke 3: 1-22.  Three ideas about how God works through John the Baptist that speaks to us in our particular now.  

Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week Three -- 1st Sunday of Christmas - Simeon and Anna

A little riff here on the idea of "New Year's Resolutions" and play with that.  This is Luke 2: 21-36 (or so).  Simeon and Anna -- their resolve.  

Narrative Lectionary -- New Testament Week One -- Advent 4 - Luke and Mary

 

Luke 1: 25-46 or so.  This is Mary meeting first the Angel Gabriel, and then her cousin. I think it is interesting that she is perplexed before Gabriel offers the potentially scandalous portion of her task.  Aren't we often perplexed when we are told we have found favor in God's eyes.