Sunday’s Coming
Joining in song (Isaiah 52:7-10; Psalm 98; Hebrews 1:1-12)
Sometimes someone else has to start singing before we can.
Idylls without idols (1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26; Luke 2:41-52)
There’s a lot of a certain sort of pleasure pursued around Christmas.
Becoming a blessing (Hebrews 10:5–10)
God the Son is committed to gladly and freely doing the Father’s will.
Rejoice? Don’t worry? (Philippians 4:4-7)
It’s hard to take Paul’s admonition seriously these days.
God’s infrastructure plan (Luke 3:1-6)
Advent is also about our own coming and going, the ways we embody the reconstructive ways of the Lord.
God’s womb of compassion (Psalm 25:1-10; Luke 21:25-36)
Advent must respond in some consequential way to the widening uncertainty of the living of our days.
Searching for truth (John 18:33-37)
This John text causes us to directly contemplate the nature of Jesus’ truth claims.
Celebrating other possibilities (1 Samuel 1:4-20)
Not all who struggle with infertility have their prayers answered.
Do we want division to cease? (Revelation 21:1-6a)
It often works pretty well for us.
Worth the risk (Mark 12:28-34)
What preacher does not like to gnaw a theological bone?
At all times? (Psalm 34:1-8, 19-22)
This psalm is hard to take.
That word “ransom” (Mark 10:35-45)
Like the disciples, we’ve missed the point here.
Job’s search for a just court (Job 23:1-9, 16-17)
He yearns to be able to lay his case before God.
Job scrapes for answers (Job 1:1, 2:1-10)
It is as if every person who asks why bad things happen to good people takes a potsherd and starts scraping.
What we cut off (Mark 9:38–50)
Maybe the shock of Jesus’ words is the point.
A woman of justice (Proverbs 31:10-31)
What does it mean to fear the Lord?
This ought not to be so (James 3:1-12)
Being a blessing and being a curse
Knowing which verses to listen to (Proverbs 22:1–2, 8–9, 22–23)
Reading Proverbs 22 without risking a change of heart
Arise and come away (Song of Solomon 2:8-13)
We are human beings, wired for sensual interaction.
Needing a warrior God (Ephesians 6:10-20)
The armor of God and the violence of the Bible