Good Friday – Mother Nancy's Coffee Thoughts

True Night

A sermon preached on Good Friday at St. Francis by the Lake, Canyon Lake, Texas.The lectionary readings are here. Are you familiar with Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night? Starry Night is an imaginative composition of the narrow scene of a cypress tree against a backdrop of hills out his window and all of the otherContinue reading “True Night”

The Goodness of Friday

In five short days, the celebratory cheers and impromptu parade of Palm Sunday have morphed to angry crowds demanding a drama of vengeance directed by fear and produced by hate. The people who had shouted Hosanna now stand with the leaders from whom they had wanted to be rescued. They had asked for freedom butContinue reading “The Goodness of Friday”