🚨Book Giveaway🚨 I’m giving away a copy of this excellent intro to the Minor Prophets. RT and follow to enter. Tag a friend for an extra entry. Winner announced 10/12.

#sermonshort for Proper 25A Christian pick up lines, love lyrics, Moses narrative, Jeanne L. Clement, van Gogh and cloning, Promised Land, My Way, trust, love, works, Sadyousee, test, neighbor, Davidic Messiah, tenderness, trunk-or-treat, invitation, neighborhood, known for love

For my scholar-priest or pastor-theologian friends... How are you paying for all of your conferences? I have friends going to AAR/SBL and the NAAL and then Calvin and then and then...what buckets of dollar bills am I missing out on? I need someone to learn me!

Christmas may have come early… Also, I took this picture a few days ago before I saw Esau McCaulley post his…so I guess that means #twinning Can’t wait to dig in! Tish Harrison Warren @EmilyMcgowin Fleming Rutledge InterVarsity Press

Your reminder that Jesus is not “the reason for the season.” The incarnation of the Son of God is the divine solution, the beginning of covenant promises fulfilled, the birth of a king & inauguration of a kingdom w/o end. But make no mistake: sin is the reason for the season.

#sermonshort for Advent 1 Milo, Door holder 3, Henry V, Adventus, already but not yet, Peregrin Took, Fleming Rutledge, dark, prospects & potential, desecrated & raided, harps hung, rend!, filthy rags, salvific restoration, sinners & ragamuffins, a thrill of hope, & he's coming again

10 years a priest… I am so very humbled by God’s call and honored to serve his church and his people. Here’s to 10 years of “Here am I, send me!” and here’s to many more to come!

Really eager to read this paper from my friend, Dr. Sanjee Perera. It promises to be rich with much food for thought--I have a feeling it will be deeply challenging as well. Give it a read and a share!

Lent 4B = Ophidiophobia Sunday

“It is necessary in order that God’s promises of a Redeemer may be fulfilled,—the types of the Old Testament sacrifices be accomplished,—the law of God be satisfied,—and a way for God’s mercy be provided.” - J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on John, 152.

Nothing--I think I mean that literally--compares with Holy Week to ground the Christian. Faithful attendance each day at some sort of gathering, however simple, however poorly attended, will make it work. Each day, with its appointed readings, is a dose of unfiltered gospel.

Church people, I'm looking for your best ideas: What has been the most successful way your church has engaged w/ your neighborhood? Our parish is in a neighborhood and we want to be good neighbors. Blessing of the animals and House Blessings on Epiphany have been great for us

Doing this all over again. Best ideas! GO!

#sermonshort for Proper 11B: Fermín, Carlos Whittaker, tongue-tied, baptizing cats, Pico Rivera, tabernacle, extravagant promises, everlasting, shepherd-king, sent out, rest & work, compassion, shepherdless sheep, Monty Python, Davidic Messiah, gaze at God/glance at the world, hear God.

#sermonshort for Proper 18B: Gone country, Post Malone, F-1 Trillion, loser, White Sox, salvation, Tyre, Josephus, Jezebel, Baal, faith and worship, further up/in, invitation, beloved, Kyrie, Gentile gospel, neighbor, marginalized, law breaking, boast, mercy, formerly, save me.

#sermonshort for Proper 19B Nigel Richards, Scrabble, 386,000 words, 20-20-30-Bingo, word wizard, GOAT, identity, hinge, Transfiguration, Caesarea Philippi, Grotto of Pan, idol worship, pop quiz, Messiah, suffering, cross, Oxyphenbutazone, costly discipleship, Word made flesh.

#sermonshort for Last Epiphany: SAGs, Chalamet, greatness, transfixed, mountaintop, 8 days, prophet, C.S. Lewis, shekinah, Hermione, all-stars, golden calf, sukkah, cheap grace, Listen!, crucifixion, hinge, flint, descent, valley, with-us-God, revelation, Hopkin, Peterson, Lent.

Why the liturgy of Ash Wednesday matters: Liturgy "is a vast & dramatic 'story-ing,' making sure that we are taking our place in the story. Without sufficient liturgical support & structure we are very apt to edit the story down to fit our individual tastes and predispositions.”

#sermonshort for Ash Wednesday: Texas, Cheer, Navarro, can/will/must, perspective shift, obey & abey, baptismal covenant, reconciliation, hypocrites, sin-sick, vitametavegamin, dust, merit badges, lay it down, GIVE UP, ragamuffin, can't/won't/mustn't, it is finished, Augustine.