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Sheep, Goats and Thankfulness – A Surprising Combination?
Ephesians 1:15-23 15-19That’s why, when I heard of the solid trust you have in the Master Jesus and your outpouring of love to all the followers of Jesus, I couldn’t stop thanking God for you-every time I prayed, I’d think of you and give thanks. But I do more than thank. I ask-ask the God […]
Advent (By Daniel Berrigan)
As the Advent season approaches, the season of hope where we look forward to the return of Christ in all his fullness, I offer this poem by Fr. Daniel Berrigan. May it enrich your Advent season. Advent By Daniel Berrigan It is not true that creation and the human family are doomed to destruction and […]
Matthew 25
Another provocative sermon from my theologically liberal friend Harry Cook. You don’t have to agree with his theology (I don’t at many points), but what he says about the Matthew 25 parable is very timely. Rowland. A Triumph of Humanism Harry T. Cook 11/23/08 Matthew 25: 31-46 If I ever I were to attend a […]
Justice, Gravity and Water
Note from Rowland: This is a brilliant sermon, in my view, except for one word – in the last paragraph. The word is ‘unknowable’… Harry T. Cook 11/09/08 Amos 5: 18-24 The little man from the little village of Tekoa about 10 miles due south of Jerusalem set down his pruning shears and shepherd’s crook […]
In Memoriam
Harry T. Cook 11/02/08 A Sermon for the Feast of All Saints In one of the early scenes of the 1950 movie “King Solomon’s Mines,” ivory hunters shoot a huge bull elephant. As he collapses, other elephants are seen to gather around him trying to get him up. Finally they just stand around the corpse […]
New versions of the Bible
A few of you will be older enough to remember the red letter Bibles,where all the words of Jesus were printed in red. Well the UK Bible Society*** has come up with a new twist. First,THE POVERTY AND JUSTICE BIBLE Of the 31000 verses in the Bible,2848 are highlighted in the new publication,The Poverty and […]
Accepting Lament as an Act of Faith
First, we feel, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” and we might think, “I should not feel this way! I am losing my faith!” Lament corrects a false, naïve and overly rationalistic view of faith. In the Scriptures, faith is not simply an intellectual assent to some statement about God. It is […]
Caesar Salad
Harry T. Cook 10/19/08 Matthew 22: 15-22 Has each of us at one time or another not wandered into the middle of an argument between feuding parties and wondered what under the sun was at issue? That’s exactly our situation today as Matthew drops us into the middle of a colloquy in which he depicts […]
Caesar Salad
Harry T. Cook 10/19/08 Matthew 22: 15-22 Has each of us at one time or another not wandered into the middle of an argument between feuding parties and wondered what under the sun was at issue? That’s exactly our situation today as Matthew drops us into the middle of a colloquy in which he depicts […]
Many are Called but Few are Chosen
Another thoughtful offering from my liberal friend (yes!) Harry, with whom I disagree on many things, but who is still a welcome inputter into my inbox and mind! Rowland. Barely Chosen to Play Right Field Harry T. Cook 10/12/08 Matthew 22: 1-14 Leave it to Matthew to abandon grace for retribution. In one of his […]
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