Cynthia Lapp

A Generous Daily Wage

September 28, 2014
Matthew 20:1-16
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“The first shall be last and the last shall be first.” At a quick glance one wonders if this is Jesus’ version of the tortoise and the hare. But that […]

Article 14 and Matthew 18 in 2014

September 07, 2014
Matthew 18:15-20
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When I turned to the lectionary for this week and saw that the gospel is this text from Matthew 18 I wanted to laugh, and scream, and cry. Really? The […]

God-fearing Midwives

August 31, 2014
Exodus 1:8-2:10
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Sometimes I think about the children born in this country after September 11, 2001. I wonder how they view the world. They only know a country at war. In addition […]

Doggin’ Jesus

August 17, 2014
Matthew 15:21-28
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Jesus is trying to get in the zone. He has a mountainous, twenty mile walk ahead of him to get to Tyre and Sidon. He is exhausted from the intense […]

The Reign Of God Is Like . . .

July 27, 2014
Psalm 78:2-4; Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52
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The past few weeks we have heard quite a few of Jesus’parables that are included in the gospel of Matthew. I have struggled, along with the disciples, to understand these […]

Eucharist: Giving Thanks

June 15, 2014
I Corinthians 11:17-22, 27-32
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Last week we celebrated communion in this congregation, and I mean celebrate. Communion is often a fairly somber event, but last Sunday as people came forward they smiled. In fact, […]

SheepGate

May 11, 2014
John 10:1-16; Psalm 23
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Sheep Gate. I didn’t know about “sheep gate” until this week when I walked around the church property reading this gospel from John. (I was trying to find new insights […]

From Death To Breath

April 06, 2014
Ezekiel 37:1-14; John 11:1-45 (selected)
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What fantastic stories and what remarkable foreshadowing of the excitement to come in two weeks.  And it is a description of what we live with every day. Death and life. […]

Encountering and Re-encountering God

March 16, 2014
Genesis 12:1-4; John 3:1-17
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During lent we are watching for encounters with God, in the biblical text and in our own lives. We are told Abram is 75 when he finally has an encounter […]

Encountering God

March 09, 2014
Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7; Matthew 4:1-11
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Lent is the time when as Christians we look to encounter God – more often and in new ways. So isn’t it curious that these familiar texts from Genesis and […]