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Showing posts with label Luke 13:10-17. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Luke 13:10-17. Show all posts
8/21/2022
Healing - Luke 13:10-17 - Pentecost 11 - 8-21-22
Sermon podcast from the Sunday, 8-21-22 worship service - St. Paul's UCC in Downers Grove, IL. Luke 13:10-17
8/26/2019
Healing Reign
Sermon podcast from this past Sunday at St Paul's UCC in Downers Grove, IL. It starts with a rant -- but goes further toward some constructive ideas. Luke 13:10-17
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"Healing Reign" Podcast
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"Healing Reign" Podcast
8/22/2016
Healing Reign
Sermon podcast from yesterday at St. Paul's UCC in Downers Grove, IL
"Healing Reign: podcast
"Healing Reign: podcast
8/25/2013
Hypocrites
This week's Bible reflection (Sometimes I rant) starts off (yes, with a rant) this week's sermon at St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Downers Grove, IL
"Hypocrites" podcast
"Hypocrites" podcast
8/19/2013
Sometimes I rant.
I read Luke 13:10-17 this morning. And I'm gonna rant.
This is my perception of a large amount of people who claim to be Christian. These are the kinds of ideas I hear from their mouths, their social networking posts, and their politics.
“Get off my lawn”
“That’s my stuff!”
“How dare you say that about me!”
“You can’t have what I have because you are less than I am”
“If you have that then I won’t think that what I have is special.”
"Your kind of love isn't acceptable."
"You're persecuting me because you don't want me to persecute you."
"They're here illegally -- and that's all there is to it."
"My religion is the best one. Yours is inferior."
"My beliefs are the only ones that are valid. Your ideas aren't worthwhile."and even
"I'm better than you are."
And it makes me sick.
I know it's not all Christians. I wish it wasn't most.
I don't want to be associated with any of that poison.
This is my perception of a large amount of people who claim to be Christian. These are the kinds of ideas I hear from their mouths, their social networking posts, and their politics.
“Get off my lawn”
“That’s my stuff!”
“How dare you say that about me!”
“You can’t have what I have because you are less than I am”
“If you have that then I won’t think that what I have is special.”
"Your kind of love isn't acceptable."
"You're persecuting me because you don't want me to persecute you."
"They're here illegally -- and that's all there is to it."
"My religion is the best one. Yours is inferior."
"My beliefs are the only ones that are valid. Your ideas aren't worthwhile."and even
"I'm better than you are."
And it makes me sick.
I know it's not all Christians. I wish it wasn't most.
I don't want to be associated with any of that poison.
8/19/2010
Wonderful Things
"Wonderful Things" text
"Wonderful Things" podcast
8/16/2010
Lawbreakers!
“These people are in the country illegally!”
If a law is unjust, then working to overturn, protesting or even breaking that law is really the only moral choice one has.
In this week’s Bible reading from Luke 13:10-17, Jesus noticed a woman who was unable to stand up straight for 18 years. While knowing the rules of conduct for what was allowed and not allowed on the Sabbath, Jesus healed the woman. What he did was against the detailed rule structure – the laws relating to the Sabbath.
Jesus was a lawbreaker!
Shouldn’t that be the end of it – no more debate about anything else related – Jesus broke the law and that was wrong, right?
Wrong.
It’s more complicated than that, isn’t it?
Jesus showed that strict adherence to the law while ignoring God’s two most important rules (Love God! Love Everyone!) makes the law something that harms rather than helps.
Today we have issues that bring out similar responses. Two of them are immigration and marriage equality.
With Jesus’ lawbreaking in mind, I pose these questions:
If a law is unjust, then working to overturn, protesting or even breaking that law is really the only moral choice one has.
In this week’s Bible reading from Luke 13:10-17, Jesus noticed a woman who was unable to stand up straight for 18 years. While knowing the rules of conduct for what was allowed and not allowed on the Sabbath, Jesus healed the woman. What he did was against the detailed rule structure – the laws relating to the Sabbath.
Jesus was a lawbreaker!
Shouldn’t that be the end of it – no more debate about anything else related – Jesus broke the law and that was wrong, right?
Wrong.
It’s more complicated than that, isn’t it?
Jesus showed that strict adherence to the law while ignoring God’s two most important rules (Love God! Love Everyone!) makes the law something that harms rather than helps.
Today we have issues that bring out similar responses. Two of them are immigration and marriage equality.
With Jesus’ lawbreaking in mind, I pose these questions:
- Is drawing a connection between today’s issues and Jesus’ response taking the Bible reading out of context?
- Is drawing a connection between today’s issues and Jesus’ response taking the Bible reading in the direction that was intended?
- How would Jesus respond?
8/24/2007
Breaking the Rules
This week's sermon at Union Congregational Church (it's edited and expanded from the i.ucc blog entry from Tuesday: Breakin' the Law) is ready for you to read and hear! It's inspired by Luke 13:10-17 -- recounting the time Jesus healed the woman who hadn't been able to stand upright for 18 years.
"Breaking the Rules" text
"Breaking the Rules" podcast
"Breaking the Rules" text
"Breaking the Rules" podcast
8/21/2007
Breakin' the law
Here's this week's "Opening the Bible" blog entry for i.ucc
There I go again – now I’ve got the Judas Priest song from 1980 pounding in my head. It’s a song about the joy of rebellion and has no connection to this week’s reading from Luke 13:10-17. Nevertheless, it’s in my head and probably yours right now. I’ll do my best to concentrate on the reading instead of the song. I hope you’ll do the same.
In this week’s Bible reading from Luke 13:10-17, Jesus noticed a woman who was unable to stand up straight for 18 years. While knowing the rules of conduct for what was allowed and not allowed on the Sabbath, Jesus healed the woman. What he did was against the detailed rule structure – the laws relating to the Sabbath.
Jesus broke the law!
Shouldn’t that be the end of it – no more debate about anything else related – Jesus broke the law and that was wrong, right?
Wrong.
It’s more complicated than that, isn’t it?
Jesus used the opportunity to make the Synagogue leaders think. He caught their attention by playing on the word we understand as “untie.”
The law says that you can untie or tie on the Sabbath – but doesn’t the Erubin (the code that showed the Sabbath laws and the exceptions to them – the word Erubin can mean something like “binding” or “tying”) show that it’s allowable to untie an animal on the Sabbath so it can get a drink? Surely it is allowable to unbind this woman who has been bound for 18 years too!
I think that Jesus was trying to teach that strict adherence to the law while ignoring the two most important rules makes the law something that harms rather than helps.
Is it possible that in today’s world we have some issues that bring out similar responses? Are issues like immigration and homosexuality parallel issues to the one Jesus was addressing? Would drawing a connection be taking the Bible reading out of context? Would it be taking it in the direction that was intended?
So many questions . . . so few brain cells to ponder them.
Maybe it’s from listening to too much Judas Priest.
There I go again – now I’ve got the Judas Priest song from 1980 pounding in my head. It’s a song about the joy of rebellion and has no connection to this week’s reading from Luke 13:10-17. Nevertheless, it’s in my head and probably yours right now. I’ll do my best to concentrate on the reading instead of the song. I hope you’ll do the same.
In this week’s Bible reading from Luke 13:10-17, Jesus noticed a woman who was unable to stand up straight for 18 years. While knowing the rules of conduct for what was allowed and not allowed on the Sabbath, Jesus healed the woman. What he did was against the detailed rule structure – the laws relating to the Sabbath.
Jesus broke the law!
Shouldn’t that be the end of it – no more debate about anything else related – Jesus broke the law and that was wrong, right?
Wrong.
It’s more complicated than that, isn’t it?
Jesus used the opportunity to make the Synagogue leaders think. He caught their attention by playing on the word we understand as “untie.”
The law says that you can untie or tie on the Sabbath – but doesn’t the Erubin (the code that showed the Sabbath laws and the exceptions to them – the word Erubin can mean something like “binding” or “tying”) show that it’s allowable to untie an animal on the Sabbath so it can get a drink? Surely it is allowable to unbind this woman who has been bound for 18 years too!
I think that Jesus was trying to teach that strict adherence to the law while ignoring the two most important rules makes the law something that harms rather than helps.
Is it possible that in today’s world we have some issues that bring out similar responses? Are issues like immigration and homosexuality parallel issues to the one Jesus was addressing? Would drawing a connection be taking the Bible reading out of context? Would it be taking it in the direction that was intended?
So many questions . . . so few brain cells to ponder them.
Maybe it’s from listening to too much Judas Priest.
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