Bound in Love

Man and Wife, Claimed by Christ, Bound in Love, Stumbling toward Heaven

homiletics

  • Easter3A at CTK

    The Walk to Emmaus is a revered and much preached upon story from the Gospels, especially by our brothers and sisters in Protestant faith traditions. There is something so powerful about the personal nature of the encounter these disciples experienced with the risen Lord. Everyone nods along with the line from the story where they Continue reading

  • The Seventh Word – Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit

    Jesus has completed the making of the New Covenant. The Law written in the books of Moses is now written in our hearts. Jesus has shown his disciples how to live the law within our hearts, how to live in response to the great dignity he gave us in creation. Now he shows us how Continue reading

  • Ordinary 8A at CTK

    For those of you who are thinking, “If that deacon doesn’t open with a joke, I’m writing the pastor a note.” Don’t worry. And it’s a joke about pastors and money. Three pastors were comparing notes over lunch, and they turned to the question of how to divvy up the Sunday collection. The first said, Continue reading

  • Ordinary 5A at CTK

    I got prayed over by the archbishop yesterday, they gave me some new vestments, and now I’m a deacon. The path to being ordained as a deacon is the path of discipleship. It’s hearing a voice – a call – from God and trying to respond. All of us Christians have heard the call to Continue reading

  • There was a movie a few years back starring Clint Eastwood and some Hmong immigrants that has parallels with our readings from Scripture this week. In the movie Gran Torino, Clint is a retired autoworker featuring all the standard stereotypes: he’s surly and disgusted with the kids of today, he is resentful of the decline of Continue reading

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  • Sandal Up

    For the readings, please see this link: 14th Sunday Ordinary Time Year C Readings PDF The story from the Gospel of Mark is one of commission. Jesus tells the 72 apostles (the Greek word means “one who is sent”) to go out among the communities and preach the good news. They are not to dilute their Continue reading

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  • It is hard to see Him

    For the readings, please see this link: 12th Sunday Ordinary Time Year C Readings PDF Jesus asked the disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” He does not ask us what we did or did not do, only to put a name on our relationship with him. For he knows that what we do or Continue reading

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  • Why We Weep

    For the readings, please see this link: 11th Sunday Ordinary Time Year C Readings PDF In the Gospel reading we hear the story of the sinful woman who bathes Jesus’ feet with her tears, and we hear Jesus rebuke the Pharisee who holds in his heart judgment of the woman. Connected to this story from the Continue reading

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  • Rules vs. Revelation

    For the readings, please see this link: 10th Sunday Ordinary Time Year C Readings PDF I found a new way to make my morning commute a bit easier, as the stoplights and people moving from parking decks to office buildings in Midtown Atlanta can make the last quarter mile an enervating finale to what otherwise is Continue reading

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  • The New Jerusalem

    For the readings, please see this link: 5th Sunday of Easter Readings PDF Our readings for this Sunday are set in the past, present and future around the continuing celebration of the Risen Lord in the season of Easter. We reach back in the Gospel of John to the words of Jesus to his disciples after Continue reading

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