Service on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100064617886792/videos/1107345084740396 (first 1/2 audio only) “Come and see.” What a quaint, little Scripture reading we have today. Nothing disturbing or dramatic, nothing stirring or inspirational—at least at first glance. But perhaps there’s more
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Service on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100064617886792/videos/1681621166146343 and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n1-LcvP-mc It is that time of year when we turn from the writings in the Old Testament from the Torah and the prophets to study our way through a gospel. We
Service on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100064617886792/videos/3288268967990201 Numerous native American traditions. There is a story of the wendigo. In popular culture they are creatures of horror that live in the woods, skin stretched over and lengthened bones stretched out
Service on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100064617886792/videos/839139848726950 and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmoU4CtGgpQ Ezekiel, a prophet and a priest, knew trouble. He knew pain and loss. He had been among the first deported from Jerusalem when Babylon conquered Judea. He was in Babylon
When I graduated seminary, my mother gifted me this quilt. Each block represents a different Bible story. The rivers at creation. The doves at the end of the flood–though doves show up so many places,
Israel was doing well. The tribes that became a kingdom under David and was expanded under Solomon didn't survive to the next generation, and that which was once united was now sometimes at war and
There is a lot in a tone of voice. Did God sound annoyed when God asked: What are you doing here? Or Why are you here? Was God angry? Or was God confused, like God
In our reading today, in the best version of the reading for today, the slightly abridged version that we read, Solomon is using all of his resources to build a temple to God–a temple that
