Lessons: Zephaniah 1:7,12-18Psalm 90:1-121 Thessalonians 5:1-11Matthew 25:14-30 Of all the stories that Jesus tells, there are few or maybe none that I find more confusing and more troubling than the one that we just heard. This is the story that is sometimes titled in Bibles: The Parable of the Talents. And I reckon that itContinue reading “Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”
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Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost by the Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Zephaniah 1:7,12-18 Psalm 90:1-8, (9-11), 12 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 Matthew 25:14-30 * When I was ten or twelve, a series of books called Choose Your Own Adventure were a pretty big deal with my classmates and me. The Choose Your Own Adventure books were paperback thrillers: the “Adventure” part of the title referredContinue reading “Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost by the Rev. Martin Elfert”
Twenty Fourth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert
Lessons: Isaiah 1:10-18 Psalm 32:1-8 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12 Luke 19:1-10 One of the many things that draws me to Jesus is that he is both someone who tells parables and someone who lives parables. One moment Jesus will be hanging out with his friends and sharing his holy folk tales, his stories of transformation aboutContinue reading “Twenty Fourth Sunday after Pentecost by The Rev. Martin Elfert”