The Light on the Ridge

Sermons on Jesus (Page 4)

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February 4, 2018 Epiphany 5

Illness meant you were not whole.  You could be only part of what it meant to be human.  But Jesus came to bring change.  Jesus came to bring God to the world.  Jesus came to bring wholeness wherever wholeness was absent.  That is where the word “healing” comes from, to be made whole.

December 17, 2017 Advent 3

The gospel writer John uses the word “testimony” to describe the baptizer John.  He was a man sent from God as a witness, a witness to the light:  Jesus, the Word of God made flesh.  The baptizer John witnessed to the truth that he knew

December 10, 2017 Advent 2

The gospel writer Mark identifies John as the messenger going before Jesus, one who cries out in the wilderness and prepares the way of the Lord, as Isaiah described it in chapter 40.  When the people who came to see John confessed their sins, and repented of them, it was part of making “straight in…

November 19, 2017 Pentecost 24

The Day of the Lord – to be feared?  To be desired?  In today’s gospel, Jesus addresses his disciples privately; this is not a public teaching of Jesus.  He tells the disciples a story about great treasure.  It is one of three stories he tells them to prepare them for the day he wouldn’t be with them any more.

October 15, 2017 Pentecost 19

The word “gospel” means “good news.” But today’s gospel does not sound like good news. The parable in this gospel features murders and retribution in the middle and ends with a wedding guest being kicked out of the banquet into “the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” To get the good news out of today’s gospel will…