Lent 4B – Numbers 21:4-9; John 3:14-21 Some Sundays when I sit down to prepare a sermon, I read the appointed passages and sigh, finding little or no inspiration.  I know that means I will be spending longer with those passages, waiting for that moment of divine inspiration.  But then there are weeks like this one, where all of the passages seem to speak to me, in very familiar words and with familiar images.  It is weeks like these that I must wrestle with limiting myself to a good Episcopal homily and not a deadly, hour-long sermon.   What captured … Continue reading Of serpents and crosses