Proper 23.A.2017
Matthew 22:1-14
The Rev. Melanie L. McCarley
Last week we encountered the parable of the wicked tenants. Having survived that, you’d think this week things would get easier. Not so. Today’s Parable of the Wedding Banquet is confirmation that Rome didn’t execute Jesus for telling innocuous feel good stories.
Proper 22.A.2017
Matthew 21:33-46
The Rev. Melanie L. McCarley
In the Gospel lesson for today, we are told that there is a landowner who planted a vineyard, and bestowed upon this fair piece of land everything it needed in order to succeed and be a blessing to those who lived there. And then he leased it to tenants and went away.
Proper 21.A.2017
Philippians
The Rev. Melanie L. McCarley
When most of us think of sled dog races, it’s the Iditarod that comes most readily to mind. Yet, what might have been the most important sled dog race that will ever be run in Alaska, ended in Nome on February 2, 1925, when Gunner Kaassen drove his tired dog team down an almost deserted First Avenue.