Tag: Sunday Lectionary Readings

Speaking to the Soul: We can be heroes

August 12, 2016 1 Comment

by Leslie Scoopmire

Hebrews 11:29-12:2

In the epistle passage for this Sunday, the author of the Letter to the Hebrews lists numerous heroes in Israel’s history, including Gideon, Samson, and David, among others, who accomplished mighty deeds, and those mighty deeds are attributed to their great faith. In the last verses, Jesus is then referred to as “the pioneer and perfecter of our faith” to whom we should look as our example for living a fully human life—in particular through Jesus’s willingness to […]

Speaking to the Soul: Seeing What’s Not There

July 31, 2016 No Comments

By focusing on the poor and the marginalized — as well we should — have we become blind to the needs of the rich and isolated?

Speaking to the Soul: Who do you love?

July 26, 2016 1 Comment

by Leslie Scoopmire

Luke 12:13-21

In one of my favorite movies, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, there’s a pivotal scene involving Ferris’s friend Cameron finally venting the anger he feels at his parents for never placing their priorities upon him, their only child. Cameron looks upon his father’s prized possession, a highly expensive classic sports car that his father has painstakingly restored, and suddenly begins to kick the incredibly expensive shiny chrome fender, lashing out as he never could against his actual father, […]

Speaking to the Soul: Carry On and Keep Praying

July 24, 2016 No Comments

Jesus’s message about prayer is less about the words, “Our father… hallowed be… thy kingdom… give us… forgive us…” It is much more about this: You already know how to do it.

Speaking to the Soul: To Do or Not To Do

July 17, 2016 No Comments

To do something or Not to do something… That is the question

Speaking to the Soul: Go and do likewise

July 5, 2016 3 Comments

We have all been each of the four people in the story—including the man who had been beaten, robbed, and left for dead by robbers and by the passersby.

Speaking to the Soul: The Elijah Method of Spiritual Renewal

June 19, 2016 No Comments

God never fails to help and govern those whom he has set upon the sure foundation of his lovingkindness

Speaking to the Soul: Carrying On

June 12, 2016 3 Comments

But sometimes He is just the God of carrying on. It’s the work of the saints, and of sinners like us. It is the heroic work of following Jesus to bear our scars and to carry on.

Speaking to the Soul: The Testimony of an Unnamed Woman

May 8, 2016 No Comments

Imaginary archeological discovery sheds new light on early Christianity.

Speaking to the Soul: The Edge of Comfort

April 17, 2016 No Comments

In what ways does the tradition comfort you to the exclusion of the mission?

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