Read the Lectionary Texts My son Peter has friends with family roots that go back to Ireland. They still own land there. Every few years they fly back to Ireland to visit relatives and check on things at the homestead. Needless to say, they were quite surprised on their last visit to discover that their next door neighbor had taken over a pretty good chunk of their property and had fenced it into his land! When they confronted him about this incursion into what rightfully belongs to them, he cited some law that says if a property is abandoned for [READ MORE]

Read the Lectionary Texts   Well THIS parable is a slam dunk, don’t you think? Pretty simple and straightforward. Easy to understand. A man has two children. Says to one, “I need you to go mow the lawn.” The kid says, “Mow the lawn? I HATE mowing the lawn!! I absolutely will not! Forget it, Dad!” But some time later, the kid thinks to himself, “Aw, what the heck. The lawn DOES need mowing.”  So he fires up the old Toro and goes out and cuts the grass. Meanwhile, the father goes looking for his second son. Finds him upstairs in the bedroom watching [READ MORE]