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Homily for the first Sunday in Lent (Year C) – Tested for readiness
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Bus Stop Bob
Jan 16, 202219 min read
Luke 4:1-13 - The test of Satan
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R. T. Tippett
Jan 15, 202219 min read
Romans 10:8b-13 - Please do not mistake faith for belief
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R. T. Tippett
Jan 14, 202212 min read
Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 - Confidently taking the test in the wilderness
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R. T. Tippett
Jan 13, 202212 min read
Deuteronomy 26:1-11 - Congratulations on your first fruits
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R. T. Tippett
Jan 12, 20229 min read
Psalm 119:9-16 - Sacrificing a whole heart to seek God
9 How shall a young man cleanse his way? *
R. T. Tippett
Mar 7, 20216 min read
Psalm 51:1-13 - Sacrificing oneself in marriage to Yahweh
1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving-kindness; *
R. T. Tippett
Mar 6, 20217 min read
John 12:20-33 - Sacrificing from hatred of life in this world to gain eternal life
Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those wh
R. T. Tippett
Mar 5, 202114 min read
Hebrews 5:5-10 - Sacrificing to become a high priest in the order of Melchizedek
Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him,
R. T. Tippett
Mar 5, 202116 min read
Jeremiah 31:31-34 - Sacrificing so a soul can know the Lord
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it
R. T. Tippett
Mar 3, 202110 min read
Homily for the fourth Sunday in Lent – For God so loved your soul
Last Sunday here at the bus stop I told the riders that I had seen all the readings with new eyes. I saw things appear from the text that I had not seen before. I said I was blown away by those revelations. Today, I have to say the same thing … again. Today’s reading from Numbers, about Moses making a bronze serpent and raising it on a pole, I had always read that and my mind went to the Caduceus or the Rod of Asclepius [the symbols for medicine and healing]. Just by thinking
Bus Stop Bob
Mar 2, 202116 min read
Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 - Sacrificing foolishness for God's mercy
1 Give thanks to the Lord , for he is good, *
R. T. Tippett
Mar 1, 20219 min read
John 3:14-21 - Sacrifice so one will not perish but have eternal life
Jesus said, “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
R. T. Tippett
Feb 28, 202115 min read
Ephesians 2:1-10 – Sacrificing as the works of art made by the hand of God
You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else. But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead
R. T. Tippett
Feb 27, 202121 min read
Numbers 21:4-9 - Seeing your own soul hanging dead on a pole
From Mount Hor the Israelites set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.” Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, “We have
R. T. Tippett
Feb 26, 202115 min read
John 2:13-22 – Sacrificing one's zeal for material things
The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling the doves, “Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace!” His dis
R. T. Tippett
Feb 23, 202119 min read
Psalm 22:22-30 - A descendant of salvation's song of praise
22 Praise the Lord, you that fear him; *
R. T. Tippett
Feb 19, 20218 min read
Mark 8:31-38 - Being taught to become a Son of man
Jesus began to teach his disciples that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”
R. T. Tippett
Feb 18, 202119 min read
Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 - A covenant to walk in love forevermore
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless. And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous.” Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the ancestor of a mul
R. T. Tippett
Feb 17, 20218 min read
Homily for the first Sunday in Lent - Understanding baptism
On this first Sunday in the season of self-sacrifice called Lent we read of the covenant between God and Noah, which is the promise to never again destroy life on earth with water – a Great Flood – with the sign of that covenant being the rainbow. That reading is then accompanied by one from Peter’s first epistle which said that Great Flood, being when Noah and his family was saved from the destruction, “prefigured” the baptism true Christians knew, which was the promise of b
Bus Stop Bob
Feb 15, 202115 min read
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