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Proper 15C Luke 12:49-56 August 18, 2019 St. Matthias From now on, five in one household will be divided…            father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, This is one of several places in the Gospels where Jesus talks about division in families over the Christian life.   Why should faith and belief be any different than anything else?   I have noticed that Jesus never says that granddaughters and their grandfather’s will be divided!   But think about all the things that families do disagree about.   My father is a liberal democrat.    His brother – my uncle - in Mississippi is a conservative Republican.   We don’t talk politics at family gatherings.   It’s probably best that way.              But it often seems the world wants us to be divided.   Watch ...

Proper 14C Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 St. Matthias August 11, 2019 I have been in Houston all week for Papaw Camp.   Our granddaughter, Lydia, had 1 week remaining in her summer vacation before the start of 2 nd grade. Our daughter, Stefanie, just happened to mention that she was searching for a very special camp experience for Lydia for that week and just had not been able to find the exact right thing she was looking for.   Well as luck would have it, my schedule suddenly opened up.   Stefanie said Papaw Camp just happened to be that exact right thing she was looking for.   I think she knows her father.            Now Lydia and I spent our week painting and making bracelets and even bouncing on trampolines.   We have also been working on balance because Lydia now has her first pair of Heelys.   Heelys are those shoes with the wheels on the bottom that we DIDN’T have when I was growing up. ...

Proper 13C Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23 St. Matthias August 4, 2019 Well we have another first this Sunday.   A couple of weeks ago was the first time I can remember including my brother in a sermon and this Sunday is the first time I can remember ever preaching on the book of Ecclesiastes.   It only comes up in the Sunday cycle of scripture readings once every 6 years.   Compare that to the Book of Isaiah which we read from 17 times just this year alone.   I looked back in my files and I didn’t find any Ecclesiastes sermons from years past and so I decided I just couldn’t pass up this opportunity.      Besides, Ecclesiastes is interesting – fascinating even. You probably know more about this book of the Bible than you think you do.   Remember that song from the 1960’s TURN, TURN, TURN by The Byrds – well the lyrics come from the 3 rd chapter.   It’s the passage that talks about there being a season and time for ev...