Tag: Parable Lost Coin
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Searching For Wholeness And Completeness – A Sermon On Luke 15:1-10
If you were to imagine your life as whole and complete what would that look like and mean for you today? What qualities or characteristics would describe that kind of life? And what keeps that from happening? What is missing or has been lost? What would it take for you to live a bit more Read more
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Finding The Lost Pieces Of Our Lives – A Sermon On Luke 15:1-10
Proper 19C – Luke 15:1-10 I remember hearing someone say, “I feel like there are parts of myself that have been lost along the way, and I don’t know if I can go back and find them again.” It was nearly twenty years ago when I heard that and it’s never left me. I knew Read more
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When We are Good and Lost – A Sermon on Luke 15:1-10
“This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them” (from Luke 15:1-10; Proper 19, Year C). That’s what the Pharisees and scribes said about Jesus. So how does that strike you? What do you hear in those words? Are they words of complaint and disagreement or ones of hope and invitation? At one level the words Read more
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Unique, Priceless, and Irreplaceable – Everyone Belongs
The collect and readings for Proper 19C, the Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, may be found here. The appointed gospel is Luke 15:1-10. Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” 3So Read more
Interrupting the Silence 