Month: September 2023

We continue this week to read Paul’s letter to the Philippians, and we will read the whole letter over the course of the month. This week we’re in chapter 2. The idea is for us to explore both Paul’s theology, his way of understanding who is Christ and what is Christ’s mission, and also to…

For four weeks in a row, Paul’s Letter to the Philippians shows up in our lectionary, starting this Sunday. We have four weeks because there are four chapters in the letter, and the lectionary assigns an extract of each chapter to each week. Now the lectionary also gives liturgical teams the option to lengthen a…

This section of the Gospel from which we have read this morning (Chap.18) is known as Jesus’s instructions on “Church discipline”. So it does not sound like a lot of fun, and on top of that, it does not seem to make much sense with what have been talking about in those two past weeks:…

Barbara Brown Taylor is a famous preacher and one of the things she says is that she hates to have to preach on suffering because she always worries that “God is going to put [her] to the test on what she has just said”. This is meant as a joke of course but, as it…