Monthly Archive for: ‘March, 2018’
“Seedtime and Harvest”– Jeremiah 31:31-34, John 12:20-33– March 18, 2018
One of the gifts that comes to us in the midst of winter’s doldrums is the delivery of seed catalogues–Burpees, Breck’s, Springhill Nursery, to name only a few that are lying around our house. What a Godsend in the midst of endless days of gray and snow to be able to look at pictures of roses, hydrangeas, and peonies in …
“The Temple of the Body”– 1 Cor. 3: 16-19, John 2: 13-22– Mar. 4, 2018
For some mysterious reason, the committee who designed the 3-year cycle of Bible readings called the lectionary has us leap out of the Gospel of Mark and over to John’s Gospel for today. And it’s not like the story of Jesus’ cleansing the Temple isn’t in Mark. It’s in all 4 gospels in fact, but John’s is the only one …