Bus Stop BobDec 14, 202213 min readHomily for the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Year C – Where faith comes fromGood morning bus riders! We are now at the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, or Proper 22 if you count that way. The theme for today...
R. T. TippettDec 7, 202217 min readLuke 17:5-10 - Having faith the size of a mustard seed means servitude to the LordThe apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" The Lord replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to...
R. T. TippettDec 1, 20228 min readPsalm 37:1-10 - Relax those angry faces1 Do not fret yourself because of evildoers; * do not be jealous of those who do wrong. 2 For they shall soon wither like the grass, *...
R. T. TippettNov 30, 20224 min readHabakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4 - A message carved in stone[1] The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw. [2] Yahweh, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen? Or cry to you...
R. T. TippettNov 29, 202222 min read2 Timothy 1:1-14 - Another use of names that expand the details of truth[1] Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, for the sake of the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus, [2] To Timothy, my...
R. T. TippettNov 18, 202210 min readPsalm 137 - Don't get misled by the names you do not understand1 By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, * when we remembered you, O Zion. 2 As for our harps, we hung them up * on the trees in...
R. T. TippettNov 16, 20226 min readLamentations 3:19-26 - Remembering one's sins after being saved[19] The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall! [20] My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down...
R. T. TippettNov 15, 20229 min readLamentations 1:1-6 - Being a princess, rather than a prince[1] How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations! She...