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Prophet Margins

What might we learn if we took the risk to listen? If we took the risk to let these holy ones of God become our traveling companions on our summer journey? We might be troubled, and we will be, but we might also be lifted up. We might be challenged, but we might find reasons for hope, or we might find a renewed vision that inspires us for all the journeys we make. So, what do you say? Are you up for a journey this summer, a journey to the edge of our faith? Then you’re ready for “Prophet Margins.”

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July 2022

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Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

Wash and Be Clean

Our text is about obedience and about submitting to authority, but it is also about recognizing the voice of God in the voices of others. Naaman had little reason to listen to Elisha, except that he l...

July 2022

Jul

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

What Do You See?

If Elisha wants us to listen, Amos wants us to look. God’s repeated word to Amos was, “What do you see?” It was an invitation to pay attention, to take off the rose-colored glasses and really see what...

July 2022

Jul

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

Living in a Bitter Day

What is underneath our wealth, our comfort, our excess? Who is suffering, who is hurting, who is decaying like the basket of summer fruit in our text, which is coming to the end of its summer? That’s ...

July 2022

Jul

Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

Pity on the House

Hosea puts to rest that old cliché that the Old Testament is about the God of Law and Judgement and the New Testament is about the God of Love. The God of the Hebrew Scriptures is much more complex th...

July 2022

Jul

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

Cords of Kindness

In part one of this stage, we were given the model of love of husband and wife. Now our text brings us the image of the love of children given to our care. This seems like familiar ground, even if we’...

August 2022

Aug

Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

Learn to Do Good

If there was a stage you’d probably prefer to skip, it would be this one. Isaiah seems at his grumpiest height. Sure, that’s the rep that prophets have. But it seems excessive here. Yet, as a crusader...

August 2022

Aug

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

Yielding Wild Grapes

What if we celebrate the church by featuring what happens outside the church? What if we lift up ministry that may be happening in small ways throughout our neighborhood, or city, or world? What if we...

August 2022

Aug

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

I Knew You

We’re back on more comfortable ground this week. Here we have the promise of presence. Supposedly, John Wesley’s final words were “best thing of all, God is with us.” We love to celebrate that God is ...

August 2022

Aug

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

Cracked Cisterns

Part of what worship could offer this week are ways to practice the presence of God in the in-between times. What can we do throughout the week to be reminded that God is with us? How could we pray, w...