Bible Study: Lent 5 (B) – March 17, 2024
[…] does Jesus draw you? The Rev. Phillip Lienau is a seminarian at Church Divinity School of the Pacific. Word – Lent 5 (B) Bible StudyDownload PDF – Lent 5 (B) Bible StudyDownload
Go! for Lent: Exodus 4:10-13
One of the perceived obstacles to working with refugees and immigrants is language. “If we speak different languages, how will I ever connect?” In Rwanda last year, I visited a […]
Bible Study: Lent 4 (B) – March 10, 2024
[…] “darkness” or in the “light?” Aidan Luke Stoddart is a seminarian at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Word – Lent 4 (B) Bible StudyDownload PDF – Lent 4 (B) Bible StudyDownload
Defeating the Beasts in Our Personal Wilderness, Lent 1 (B) – 2015
[…] worth dying for. In responding to that gracious love, we find ourselves once more in Lent. As today’s collect reminds us, we, too, are “assaulted by many temptations.” We are […]
Bible Study: Lent 3 (B) – March 3, 2024
[…] about teaching God’s word to people of all ages. Erica and her husband Tim have three children. Word – Lent 3 (B) Bible StudyDownload PDF – Lent 3 (B) Bible StudyDownload
Loving Like a Mother Hen, Lent 2 (C) – 2016
[…] that everything of God’s is also ours, even Jesus, God’s own son. The season of Lent is a time of repentance and a time to consider what it means to […]
A Ministry of Reconciliation, Lent 4 (C) – 2019
[…] Christ.” And the image of a loving father, of God’s arms ready to embrace each lost child, stays before our eyes as we proceed in this Lenten season toward resurrection. Sermon-English-Lent-4C-2019Download
Fear, Lent 4 (B) – 2021
[…] hardness of heart and soul, and leads ultimately to death. As we continue on our Lenten journey, there may be no more important time for us to take account of […]
Confusion, Lent 4 (A) – 2023
[…] in our world, within us, and within our surroundings. God is breaking through our assumptions. Thanks be to God. Word – Lent 4 (A) SermonDownload PDF – Lent 4 (A) SermonDownload
Suffering and Punishment, Lent 3 (C) – 2019
Odds are that a quick scan of the commentaries and preaching resources written on Luke, chapter 13, would produce a common refrain: “Be careful with this passage!” The warning is […]
A Remarkable Encounter, Lent 3 (A) – 2023
[…] quenches our thirst. May our spirits be filled with a spring of water gushing up to eternal life. Amen. Word – Lent 3 (A) SermonDownload PDF – Lent 3 (A) SermonDownload
Bible Study: Lent 3 (B) – 2012
Exodus 20:1-17 This is one of the two Old Testament passages containing the Ten Commandments, the other being Deuteronomy 5:6-21. The text itself does not make clear how the verses […]
It Is Not Often…, Lent 3 (A) – 2008
“Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, ‘Rabbi, eat something.’” It is not often that we find anyone in the gospels giving Jesus advice or telling him what to do. He […]
Some Go On a Journey, Some Tend the Garden, Lent 4 (C) – 2001
[…] a journeyer or a gardener right now? Have you always been so? These are fruitful Lenten meditations. Now let us return to God, the One who is intensely interested in […]
Bible Study: Lent 3 (A) – 2023
[…] perceive Jesus because of the Samaritan woman. Who in your life has helped you to perceive Jesus? Word – Lent 3 (A) Bible StudyDownload PDF – Lent 3 (A) Bible StudyDownload
Bible Study: Lent 2 (A) – 2014
Genesis 12:1-4a The story of Abram’s call is an archetypal narrative that is repeated again and again throughout the biblical record. Artistic in its presentation, this text also presents deep […]
Bible Study: Lent 4 (A) – 2020
[…] thereby condemn their son to the fate they feared. How often have we sat si lent in the face of the need of another because we fear exclusion? In what […]
Bible Study: Lent 2 (A) – 2023
[…] its full context here. Does reading it with this surrounding narrative change how you think about it? Word – Lent 2 (A) Bible StudyDownload PDF – Lent 2 (A) Bible StudyDownload
Bible Study: Lent 3 (A) – 2020
[…] comes vividly alive. In the rolling hills of God’s creation, there are fields of p lenty and green for God’s sheep to graze in. Reading this is almost overwhelming, but […]
Bible Study: Lent 1 (A) – 2023
[…] concrete language to describe spiritual realities. The psalmist describes the experience of keeping sins si lent as the wasting away of the body. When reading Hebrew poetry like the Psalms, […]