Category: Ordinary Time / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
July 18, 2020
Violets Bob Stillerman Proper 11, Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, 7/19/2020 Matthew 13:24-43 Violets Matthew 13.24-43 7-19-2020 Clarence Jordan once wrote, “God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers....
Category: Ordinary Time / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
July 10, 2020
Sower. Seeds. Soil. Bob Stillerman Proper 10, Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, 7/12/2020 Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Sower. Seeds. Soil. Matthew 13.1-9 18-23 7-12-2020 There was a sower, and there were seeds, and there was soil. I’m...
Category: Ordinary Time / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
July 03, 2020
Independence Day Bob Stillerman Proper 9, Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, 7/5/2020 Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Independence Day Matthew 11.16-19, 25-30 7-5-2020 Caesar’s world teaches us to zig, when God’s world asks us to zag. Caesar’s world...
Category: Ordinary Time / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
June 27, 2020
Let’s Pack a Cooler Bob Stillerman Proper 8, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, 6/28/2020 Matthew 10:40-42 “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet in...
Category: Ordinary Time / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
June 19, 2020
Listening and Learning Bob Stillerman Proper 7, Third Sunday after Pentecost, 6/21/2020 Matthew 10:24-39 Listening and Learning Matthew 10.24-39 6-21-2020 Theologian Emilie Townes reminds us that a good translation for disciples is “learners.” If we...
Category: Ordinary Time / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
June 12, 2020
Unpacking a Compassionate Shepherd and Kingdom Bob Stillerman Proper 6, Second Sunday after Pentecost, 6/14/2020 Matthew 9:35-10:8 Unpacking a Compassionate Shepherd Matthew 9.35-10.8 6-14-2020 So…there’s an awful lot to unpack in this morning’s lection, but...
Category: Trinity Sunday / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
June 06, 2020
Esse Quam Videri. Ut Prosim. Think and Do. Bob Stillerman Trinity Sunday, 6-7-2020 Genesis 1:1-2:3 Trinity Sunday Genesis 1.1-2.4a 6-7-2020 It’s fitting that Trinity Sunday, as well as the first creation story of Genesis align...
Category: Pentecost Sunday / Speaker: Rev Bob Stillerman
May 31, 2020
A Flame that Illumines; A Wind that Connects Bob Stillerman Pentecost, 5/31/2020 Acts 2:1-21 A Flame that Connects A Wind that Illumines Acts 2.1-21 5-31-2020 One of my favorite words or images in scripture is...