RoboPreacher

steady your boats / arms to shoulder The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke ! Get lost. Take a hike. Beat it. Go to He/  Well, you get the idea.. Not a proper way to say, ‘well, I guess we disagree on this issue.’  Only crass folks would talk like that. I’m sure none of you saints have ever said such a thing …  You can learn a lot about the character of someone by the way they speak. Which is why today, I have to tell you, you have a savior who would say something like that. And not only that! Your savior doesn’t just have a dirty mouth. You have the kind of savior who would tell you to go to Helena, Montana. If you catch my drift…  There isn’t any love lost between the Pharisees and Jesus.  They never seem to agree on anything; they’re like republicans and democrats that way. Throughout the Gospel they’re always butting heads. Today , in the Gospel, it finally comes to a head.  Admittedly, the Pharisees couldn’t ha...

what an awful price to pay The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark the 6th Chaper! He used to have dreams where his life sat before him, like a great tree, with powerful roots, a hearty trunk, branches that filled that sky full of leaves that rested in the breeze.  A great tree, like the one the old Rabbi had used to talk about. The night after his great banquet, though; he had a new dream that replaced the one about the tree… That night, specters closed in around him. All night, the nearer ones got nearer; and the further ones got nearer. Until one pounced upon him, and with a ghastly finger pointed, the specter crowed, “who killed the man.” The others yelped back, “he did! He did! All night he dreamt of the specters. He couldn’t see them clearly, as through his eyes. They were dim and wavy, as though he saw them through a glass, dimly… Now it was almost noon and he still wasn’t out of bed. It had been a rough morning… Rolling over he tries to remember la...