Posts from September 2020

It was the first verse of the letter to the Philippians that answered my prayers this week.  What do our congregations need right now?  “If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing of the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy” (Phil. 2:1).  We could all use the love that accompanies all these right now.  We do not have a list of…

              Parable of the Vineyard This parable is not about money or fairness though it might seem like that on the surface.  First we have to know that the Vineyard in the days this was written was a metaphor for the Community in Christ.  AND we have to know that the kingdom of God does not look like our earthly kingdoms.  God gives us more than we…

        “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”   26 They (the disciples) looked at each other greatly astounded and said to one another “Then who can be saved?”  27Jesus looked at them and said, “For mortals it is impossible, but…

I didn’t get past the very first line of the Romans passage before I was convicted.  “Owe no one anything, except to love one another.”  While I appreciate the message, I still owe a lot on my student loan and a car.  And it is only in time that I will be able to work it off.  So a little guilt came my way.  I remember someone saying “the borrower is always enslaved to…