

When All We Can Do Is Sing Our Pain
A sermon on Luke 16:1-13 and Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 [For an audio recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by Ante Gudelj on Unsplash.] My parables professor in Seminary, Fred Borsch, had a great summary of the problem with today’s parable. He wrote: “The first person that can be seen having difficulty with the interpretation of this story is the Evangelist Luke. In succeeding verses he has, while evidently struggling with the meaning of the story, offered ‘notes for three sepa


Contrast, Change, and Challenge
A sermon on Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 and Luke 15:1-10 [for an audio recording of this sermon, click here. Photo by Ivan Bandura on Unsplash.] Is it just me, or does hearing our two readings today, one right after the other, feel a bit like a bizarre “How it started / How it’s going” contrast? [In case anyone doesn’t know, How it started/How it’s going is a social media trend that juxtaposes two pictures that represent a major change – initially in a romantic relationship but n