Lectionary: Series A (725)
  1. We expect God to be at least as fair our society. But that is not how God operates.
  2. The worthy life is not payment for citizenship. It is the life of a citizen who knows where home is... and who has built the house!
  3. Isaiah uses commands and rhetorical questions to invite Israel to have faith in the future deliverance of God and to trust in the finished work of His “suffering servant.”
  4. Joseph could not give them the complete assurance they required. They needed someone greater than Joseph, and so do we!
  5. There is no problem with Christians developing different practices, cultural traditions, and the like. The problem arises when these become the badge of belonging, when they become the badge of righteousness.
  6. Peter asks the kind of question asked by those who keep records, who keep score. Which reminds me that we are a score-keeping people.
  7. Jesus is showing the disciples that humility is not only about how we present ourselves before God. It also has to do with our love and service to the least among us.
  8. Christians are called to love even amid imperfect institutions, imperfect marriages and families, imperfect churches and congregations, and called to love even in our clunky and imperfect society.
  9. Like petulant children they bemoan their lot and continue to question their very existence. Nevertheless, God loves His wayward children.
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