Straighten Up and Raise Your Heads St. Luke 21:20-35 by William Klock Our Gospel lesson today sounds rather ominous with its talk of signs in the sun, moon, and stars,…
Sometimes the best known stories are the hardest to understand—just because we know them so well. In our Gospel this morning we read Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan. This…
Lost and Found St. Luke 15:1-10 by William Klock Sometimes it’s hard for Christians to get along and it’s particularly sad and ironic when we can’t get along over the…
Hear the Word of God and Keep It St. Luke 11:14-28 by William Klock One of the things that Lent reminds us is that there’s a battle going on. It’s…
They saw his Glory Luke 9:28-36 I was thinking this week of Harold Abrahams. The movie, Chariots of Fire, told the real-life story of him and Eric Liddell. They were runners…
The Great Banquet St. Luke 14:16-24 St. John tells us in our Epistle, “Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth” (1…
Not One Square Inch Acts 1:1-11 & St. Luke 24:49-53 What’s the significance of the Ascension? Every year the Church takes us through this cycle during the first half of…
Boundaries St. Luke 10:23-37 Sometimes the best known stories are the hardest to understand—just because we know them so well. In our Gospel this morning we read Jesus’ parable of…
Up and Down St. Luke 9:28-36 You might have noticed that the Gospel I read from Luke 9—the story of Jesus’ transfiguration—isn’t the Gospel for today. It’s actually yesterday’s Gospel—the…