082320 Pentecost 12  Exodus 1:8-2:10; Matthew 16:13-20   I’ve noticed that there is a new version of the Perry Mason TV show on HBO. I grew up in the 1950s and 60s watching the first version with Raymond Burr. It’s where I got my law degree. Well, at least it’s where I learned the meaning…

081620 Pentecost 11  Matthew 15:21-28   Often, when I prepare a sermon, I look back at sermons I’ve preached on the same texts to get a sense of what they were saying to me then. They usually fall on about the same date every three years. In 2017 White Supremacists had just marched in Charlottesville.…

080920 Pentecost 10  Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28; Matthew 14:22-33   Last week’s Gospel ended with Jesus teaching the disciples how to be compassionate by organizing the crowd into a community that shared the food so that everyone had more than enough. Today’s Gospel opens when people had been fed and it was time to finish the…