by Lindsay Elliott | Oct 20, 2026 | Homily Blog
I’ve thought long and hard about giving this homily. I prayed about it. There was a part of me that thought of not giving it. But that didn’t feel right. It felt like I was backing down from something I’m called to speak to. So, here goes. Like we heard in the story...
by Lindsay Elliott | Oct 8, 2026 | Pondering With Prompts
Matthew 22:34-40 Lead in #1: In Matthew 22:34-40, it is clear the religious establishment had a deep disdain for Jesus. The Pharisees, the scribes, the scholars of the law, all of them wanted Jesus out of the picture. Why were they so threatened by the itinerant...
by Lindsay Elliott | Oct 8, 2026 | Pondering With Prompts
Matthew 22:15-21 Lead in #1: In Matthew 22:15-21, the Pharisees were plotting how they might trap Jesus, hoping to silence him once and for all. Careful to conceal their scheme, they flatter him with heaps of praise, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and...
by Lindsay Elliott | Oct 8, 2026 | Pondering With Prompts
Matthew 22:1-14 Lead in #1: In both Matthew 21 and in Matthew 22, Jesus tells a story of how, in a last attempt to get people to come to his banquet party, he sends his son. They again reject the invitation and, to add insult to injury, they turn on the king’s son....
by Lindsay Elliott | Oct 8, 2026 | Homily Blog
Jesus tells stories that sometime seem pretty far-fetched. Like the one we just heard today. There’s a landowner who goes out of town. So he sends his right-hand people to collect his profits. But his farm hands beat up two of them and send the third running. So, the...
