The Lord’s Prayer
by Herb Montgomery “When you pray, say‚ Father — may your name be kept holy! — let your reign come: Our day’s bread give us today; and cancel our debts for us, as we too have cancelled for those in…
Knowing the Father through the Son
by Herb Montgomery “Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone know the Father except the Son and to whomever the Son chooses to reveal him.” (Q…
Whoever Takes You in Takes Me in
Both the positive and negative implications. by Herb Montgomery “Whoever takes you in takes me in, and whoever takes me in takes in the one who sent me.” (Q 10:16) Companion Texts: Matthew 10:40-42: “Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me,…
Response to a Town’s Rejection
by Herb Montgomery “But into whatever town you enter and they do not take you in, on going out from that town‚ shake off the dust from your feet. I tell you: For Sodom it shall be more bearable on…
Sayings Gospel Q: Sheep Among Wolves
by Herb Montgomery “Be on your way! Look, I send you like sheep in the midst of wolves” (Q 10:3) . Companion Texts: Matthew 10.16: “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes…
Sayings Gospel Q: Workers for the Harvest
What do you want the next revolution to look like? by Herb Montgomery “He said to his disciples: The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. So ask the Lord of the harvest to dispatch workers into his harvest.” (Q…
Confronting Potential Followers
by Herb Montgomery Before we begin this week, I want to take a moment to pause and remember the forty-nine victims of the Orlando Shooting. This tragic event took place at the gay nightclub Pulse, where our Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,…
This Generation and the Children of Wisdom
(Being awake to today’s socio-economic, Liberation movements.) by Herb Montgomery “To what am I to compare this generation and what is it like? It is like children seated in the‚ market-places who addressing the others say: ‘We fluted for you,…
For and Against John
“For John came to you. The tax collectors responded positively, but the religious authorities rejected him.” (Q 7:29-30) Companion Texts: Luke 7:29-30: “(All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus’ words, acknowledged that God’s way was right,…
More than a Prophet
(And the Inability of Those in “Fine Clothing”) by Herb Montgomery “And when they had left, he began to talk to the crowds about John: ‘What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed shaken by…