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2019-01-14T18:32:52-05:00

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Second Sunday After the Epiphany Isaiah 62:1-5 January 20, 2019 “What’s in a Name?”

Last updated on: January 14, 2019 at 6:32 pm By John C Holbert

Here is a fun passage from the third section of Isaiah’s prophetic grab-bag collection, a group of oracles and narratives and poems that cover perhaps as much as 300 years of composition. This chapter 62 is certainly from late in the collection, but just when or under what circumstances it may have been written is impossible to determine. Suffice it to say that whoever wrote/spoke this material knew her Hebrew well and was having a right good time playing with... Read more

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2019-01-10T15:47:59-05:00

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The Peripatetic Preacher Listens to Mahler’s 2nd

Last updated on: January 10, 2019 at 3:47 pm By John C Holbert

I am a musical snob. Since my senior year in High School, a few more than 50 years ago, I have listened exclusively to one kind of music, generally named classical. I was indoctrinated into this lovely world first by my choir participation and then by my desire to become an opera singer. I was perhaps too soon disaffected of that dream by a rigorous, albeit quite knowledgeable, teacher of voice in my college years who flatly said no, when... Read more

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2019-01-07T18:31:21-05:00

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Baptism of the Lord January 13, 2019 Isaiah 43:1-7 “The Gospel”

Last updated on: January 7, 2019 at 6:31 pm By John C Holbert

We find in this marvelous passage for today one of the clearest statements of the gospel of God as one can find in the Bible. Please note that I said the “gospel of God.” For too many Christians, they assume that unless the name of Jesus is announced there can finally be no gospel. I completely and thoroughly disagree! Unless we find the work of God in the Hebrew Bible, places where God with the name of YHWH acts in... Read more

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2019-01-03T19:01:55-05:00

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The Peripatetic Preacher Thinks About Humility

Last updated on: January 3, 2019 at 7:01 pm By John C Holbert

Because I am a United Methodist clergyperson, and have been for nearly 50 years, I am much concerned with the upcoming called session of our General Conference to be held in St. Louis at the end of February. At this meeting only one topic will consume the time of the delegates, namely what to do with our long-debated problems with human sexuality. Since 1972 we have had a contentious phrase enshrined in our Book of Discipline that serves as the... Read more

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2018-12-31T14:49:24-05:00

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Epiphany of the Lord January 6, 2019 Isaiah 60:1-6 “The Making of a Myth”

Last updated on: December 31, 2018 at 2:49 pm By John C Holbert

“We three kings of Orient are, bearing gifts we travel afar…” You of course know the rest of this most famous of Epiphany hymns. I know we have been singing it and hearing it for the past month, in mall and church, but it is only really appropriate for this Sunday, the day of the appearance of the Messiah, his epiphany to the whole world in the persons of the Magi from the east, all according only to the Gospel... Read more

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2018-12-27T16:20:02-05:00

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First Sunday After Christmas Day December 30, 2018 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26 “Samuel and Hannah in Shiloh”

Last updated on: December 27, 2018 at 4:20 pm By John C Holbert

The lectionary prefigures the story of Jesus by giving us the origin tale of the prophet Samuel. Just as Samuel will “grow in favor and stature with God and human beings,” so it will be with Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke (Luke 2:40). The settings of the two stories are both in temples with Jesus being given the further acclamation of many elders, and the astonishment of his parents, due to his precocious wisdom in the temple. In... Read more

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2018-12-19T15:46:13-05:00

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The Peripatetic Preacher Confronts a Christmas Crisis

Last updated on: December 19, 2018 at 3:46 pm By John C Holbert

My son, Darius, and his wife of 10 years, Caroline, are heading for divorce. That is a most painful sentence to write, but it is all too true. Caroline sued him in June of this year, and the subsequent 6 months have witnessed the usual fallouts from their decision. He has moved to an apartment, about 11⁄2 miles away from their house, while she and our two grandchildren, Saoirse, 6, and Moxie, 3 1⁄2, continue to live in the house.... Read more

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2018-12-18T17:31:46-05:00

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Fourth Sunday of Advent December 23, 2018 Micah 5:2-5a “Come, Thou Long Expected…?”

Last updated on: December 18, 2018 at 5:31 pm By John C Holbert

Micah is a very complicated book, and has engendered no end of attempts to solve its myriad difficulties. We think of it as the work of an 8th century BCE prophet, contemporaneous with I-Isaiah, probably living somewhere in the Judean countryside, just before or just after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel to the Assyrians in 722 BCE. He is a crusty fellow, who views the city of Jerusalem and those who inhabit it with an especially jaundiced... Read more

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2018-12-12T15:28:07-05:00

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The Peripatetic Preacher Visits Bryce Canyon National Park

Last updated on: December 12, 2018 at 3:28 pm By John C Holbert

I warned you, dear reader, several weeks ago, that I was about to embark on another long road trip with my wife. In the past, such trips have resulted in this blog morphing into a sort of travelogue, a kind of highlights itinerary for my golden years. You may at least be grateful that I do not include any personal photos of me pointing at various signs, clad in red sweater, announcing the entrance to one delightful American high spot... Read more

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2018-12-11T19:14:33-05:00

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The Peripatetic Preacher Thinks About Blindness

Last updated on: December 11, 2018 at 7:14 pm By John C Holbert

When I was a pastor in Louisiana now over 40 years ago, I had a ministerial colleague who was blind. He had been blind from birth and was an excellent pastor. His wife read to him from newspapers and magazines each day, and he was among the most well-versed and knowledgeable people I have ever known. He also had a wicked sense of humor. One day in a preacher’s meeting, those too often grim affairs where numbers, data, and hierarchical... Read more

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