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Blogging Towards Sunday | posts preparing for public worship, wrestling with scripture, culture, theology and daily life.

Blogging Towards Sunday, May 3, 2020

  Acts 17:1-9 & 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10   I was walking our dogs this week…

Blogging Towards Sunday, March 29, 2020

 Mark 13:1-8, 24-37    The Book of Mark is most likely the first of the…

Blogging Towards Sunday, February 23, 2020

  Mark 8:27-9:8   Paradox (noun): a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that…

Blogging Towards Sunday, February 16, 2020

  Mark 7:1-23   HOLY. It’s a word that I hear used repeatedly, outside of…

Blogging Towards Sunday, February 2, 2020

    Mark 5:21-43   Trauma is defined as the response to a deeply distressing…

Blogging Towards Sunday, January 26, 2020

  Mark 5:1-20   Today’s story is disturbing. Maybe you’re bothered by the loss of…

Blogging Towards Sunday, January 19, 2020

  Mark 4:1-34   Today’s text dwells in the teaching of Jesus about the Kingdom…

Blogging Towards Sunday, January 12, 2019

Mark 2:1-22 Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old…

Blogging Towards Sunday, January 5, 2020

  Mark 1:21-45   Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending…

Blogging Towards Sunday, December 29, 2019

Mark 1:1-20   Mark’s gospel opens with an evocation of the creation story of Genesis…