Our Gospel reading this morning offers us the famous parable of “The Good Samaritan.” Only, the word good doesn’t appear in the reading. Rather, the Samaritan is called compassionate. A better name for it may be “The Self-justifying Lawyer and the Compassionate Samaritan”, though, I admit that is far less catchy. We’re told the lawyer […]
Sermon Topic: Compassion
When the source of all life trembled.
“Think of the kind of community and the kind of world we can build in this way, where nobody who gets lost despairs of being rescued, nobody who is alone gives up the hope of finding a home to go back to, nobody who is withering or deprived of the chance of becoming fruitful again.” […]
Sometimes it causes me to tremble.
Today is Palm Sunday, or to be correct according to our Book of Common Prayer, it is the Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday. That is why we are not singing ‘Ride on, ride on in majesty’ at Evensong, for the story of the triumphant entry with the waving of the palms and the cries […]
The Tenderness of Jesus
Let’s be honest: feet are tender. They endure a lot of abuse down there, shoe-horned into footwear, holding us up through the day, ignored, taken for granted, yet capable of much weariness. Feet are tender, and it is tender of Jesus to care for them. In the arid climate of his time, where sandals were […]
When Love Makes God Tremble...
Compassion is a powerful word for Christians and a powerful word in the bible.
