Jesus was once again in the Temple, sitting and watching people tossing their offerings into large brass horn-shaped collection...

Immediately following Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, the resistance to his teaching and his actions becomes heated. He returns to...

She cringed when she realized that this Sunday’s Gospel was the story of Blind Bartimaeus. Good Old Blind Bart, the beggar by the side of...

Pick up your school alumni magazine and turn to the “Class Notes” section. Before you have a chance to say, "gee, she sure changed!" you...

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Ever since Jesus...

The scene opens with Jesus as the center of attention, again. This time, people are bringing children to him that he might touch them....

He’s not one of us, Jesus. They’re outside the tent, Moses. She’s in a different parish, Father. My Lord, stop them!   There is something...

High up on the shelf in my Sunday School classroom, there was a picture book about the life of Jesus. It had been written and illustrated...

HOMILY I ~ Rev. Benjamin Roberts, D.Min. It all began with an invitation from the Lord Jesus. Walking by the Sea, the master called two...

Jesus had completed his ministry among the Gentiles after the healing of the Syrophoenician Woman’s daughter in Tyre. At least that is...

In the early 1970’s a new rock opera came out, Godspell. It was based on Jesus’ parables in St. Matthew’s Gospel. It seemed like the...

Just imagine the scene.    Jesus was in Capernaum, teaching in the synagogue.  He and the disciples had returned from a hillside where...

May the Lord Jesus Christ protect you and lead you to eternal life. A nice phrase, a pious thought, and you’ve probably never heard it...

During the time of the prophet Elijah, the people of Israel had become comfortable adaptable easy to sway. A little too easy. They began...

The profound feeding miracle had now taken place; the Five Thousand were fed by Jesus with a little boy’s gift of five barley loaves and...

The Gospel Lesson for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B, begins an intercalation of the entire Bread of Life Discourse from John’s...

I hear the words of Jesus, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while,” and I have three questions. When? Where? How?...

Scripture scholars and preachers often tell us that this passage speaks to the importance of “Travelling Light.” They remind us (rightly)...

You see it over and over when you drive through a new area on one of the “blue highway” roads.  As you come to the next town, you...

Despite the abundance of healing stories in the New Testament, including the two we read today, about a woman with a hemorrhage and the...