Penelopepiscopal

Texts: 1 John 3:16-24; Psalm 23; John 10:11-18
Everybody loves Jesus the Good Shepherd. We love seeing him in stained glass windows, or depicted in beautiful mosaics, in our churches. We love to recite the 23rd Psalm with its message of comfort, and many of us have our favorite renditions of that...

Text: Mark 16:1-8
The story of Easter is not just the story of something that happened a long time ago in a far away land.
It is the story that is happening again over and over for all time.

Text: from Jeremiah and John http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearB_RCL/Lent/BLent5_RCL.html
For two weeks in a row now, Jesus has talked about being lifted up. Last week he compared what is going to happen to him, being lifted up, to that time when Moses put a bronze serpent on a pole and lifted it up for people to look at after they had been...

Text: John 2:13-22
When it was time for the Passover, when everyone flocked to Jerusalem to make their sacrifice at the Temple, Jesus also went to Jerusalem. And there, instead of making his sacrifice, he short-circuited the whole system.
Despite the whip and the table-overturning action, though, this story is not about Jesus’ anger. He’s not finding fault with the sacrificial system, either, but rather announcing, in dramatic fashion, that it is no longer needed. That there do not have...