December 25, 2019
Insights Blog - Church of the Resurrection
Matthew 2: 1-12
Merry Christmas! Christ is born! The star announces Christ’s birth that turns the world upside down. The star above the manger signals that nothing will be the same, that God-with-us breaks into our score-keepin...
November 27, 2019
Insights Blog, Church of the Resurrection
Psalm 30:5-12
What do you weep about? What does your church weep about? What prevents you from weeping? These questions were posed by Rev. Dr. Grace Imathiu, a powerful preacher and biblical scholar, at the Academy for Spiritual...
October 30, 2019
Insights Blog, Church of the Resurrection
Exodus 20:17: The spiritual hazard of envying others’ lives
For some of us, envy is a constant companion, a set of lenses through which we see each experience, each person. It compels us to compare ourselves, our lives, our part...
October 2, 2019
Insights Blog Church of the Resurrection
Jesus really doubles down on “do not kill” (Ex. 20:13) in Matthew 5: 21-24. Jesus calls out contempt for others as a form of interpersonal violence, a form of murder.
We live in a world of knee-jerk responses. Cycles of reactivit...
September 18, 2019
Commentary on Scripture for Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Acts 28, "They Showed Us Unusual Kindness"
Paul’s journey to Rome is full of lots of action. Just picture it all: rough sailing on choppy seas, shipwreck, foreign lands, strange people, snakebite, healings, m...
September 4, 2019
Insight Blog Church of the Resurrection
Do not use Yahweh your God’s name as if it were of no significance (Exodus 20:7).
We call people we hardly know by their first name. That is a development of the late 20th century. Until the 1960’s, courtesy required using titles w...
August 7, 2019
Insights Blog - Church of the Resurrection
Luke 7: 1-10
To even call this passage about the Roman centurion a story about “prayer” (since that is the theme for this week’s GPS series) seems to say too much. There is no sense of any formal prayer here. No one falls on the...
June 1, 2019
Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 Commentary WorkingPreacher.org
July 7, 2019
This is the third passage in the last four weeks that invites us to step out of the reactivity that the world around us reinforces.
Jesus offers instead the consistent promise of peace and the nearness of God...
June 1, 2019
Luke 9:1-62 Commentary WorkingPreacher.org
June 30, 2019
We’ve all felt it. The rise in our gut when someone rejects our most cherished beliefs.
We recognize the need to justify our views, prove we are right, defend our faith. But we don’t stop there. We also have the im...
May 21, 2019
WorkingPreacher.org Commentary
Pentecost Sunday June 9, 2019
Acts 2: 1-21
It happened on the subway platform in Moscow. I’d been there for a week and I don’t speak Russian or understand it. For several days, my ears had been in a sea of gibberish, random sounds that I co...
