“God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve.” Let me invite you to pay attention to the collect—that’s our opening prayer for Sunday Eucharist—which changes every
week. Some weeks it’s about the season or time of year; sometimes it’s related to the scriptures we … Read the rest
I don’t know about you, but I really struggle to imagine how Jesus could ride into Jerusalem on both a donkey and a colt. It might be a first world problem: I drive a car and I don’t have much experience riding animals, so that makes it especially hard for me to envision what it would be like … Read the rest
“What do you think?” Jesus asked the chief priests and elders. Well, what do YOU think about the behavior of these two sons? Is it better to be a hypocrite or a nay-sayer?
Spoiler alert: this parable was kind of a trap for the temple authorities, because Jesus was using it to reveal their own hypocrisy. They gave … Read the rest
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