Discerning our role in creation

Discerning our role in creation

Today’s Sermon focus What’s our role again?   I think anyone who has ever owned a cat will have serious questions about what’s meant by “dominion” in the Genesis reading.   In Genesis, God tells his newly formed people, “Be fruitful and multiply,...
Discerning our role in creation

Crying Uncle

Today’s Sermon focus Following God is a Wrestling Match When we were young, my brother and I would wrestle.  He was five years older, so I usually came out on the short end of the stick.  When he pinned me into an immobile position or when the pain became too...
Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks

Today’s Sermon focus Giving Thanks! Returning thanks seems to be a prominent theme in today’s readings. We see how the result of the Lord’s healing power elicited an enthusiastic acknowledgment from the King of Aram.  The letter from Paul to Timothy reinforces...
Who’s Keeping this Chasm Fixed?

Who’s Keeping this Chasm Fixed?

Today’s Sermon focus What Are the Chasms in Our Lives? I’ll apologize at the beginning of this sermon that there will be talk of Christmas. No one like Christmas coming too early and September is certainly too early! However, I can’t help bring up Christmas...
Discerning our role in creation

Si, se puede!

Today’s Sermon focus With Christ Jesus, yes we can!   Faith is sometimes about perspective.  There’s the story of a shoe salesman sent by his company to a unique region of the country.  After a couple of days there, he wrote back to his superiors that he...
Discerning our role in creation

Forgiving Debt

Today’s Sermon focus After all, we gotta serve somebody Today’s Gospel reading is confusing and clear – at the same time. To be honest, it’s something everyone who reads scripture has to live with – the ambiguity of certain parts.  The very last verse – “You...