All Saints of America

Romans 13:11-14:4
Matthew 6:14-21
Hebrews 7:7-17 Epistle, Meeting
Luke 2:22-40 Gospel, Meeting
A sketch…
The Sunday of Forgiveness.
The Expulsion from the Garden.
Valentines day on the Secular calendar.*
The Eve of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple on the CHurch’s calendar.
*And the Western Church calendar: St Valentine is commemorated in the Summer on the Eastern Calendar.
You know the story: after [...]

ARA MILES’ New book, Jesus Freak, is a blessing and a curse – both for the same reason: you have to sit down and think. You have to think all the way through. When Sara’s publisher offered to send me a review copy, I was very thankful. But I wasn’t expecting this [...]

Proverbs 1:20-33

Wisdom of Solomon 7:26 – 8:1

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Psalm 116:1-9

James 3:1-12

Mark 8:27-38

Year B, Proper 19 (24), Revised Common Lectionary
God loves nothing so much as the person who lives with wisdom.
Whenever we start to read the Wisdom passages of the Bible we cross a gender line. I use that word here in its correct, linguistic meaning. [...]