Brian Volck

Learning to be Sheep

The following post was originally published for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, 2016Acts 9:36-43 or Acts 13:14, 43-52Psalm 23Revelation 7:9-17John...
May 4, 2022

Imagining God’s Reign

Second Sunday of Lent Genesis 12:1-4aPsalm 121Romans 4:1-5, 13-17John 3:1-17 OR Matthew 17:1-9“Our culture is competent to implement almost anything...
March 3, 2020

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost Haggai 1:15b-2:9 OR Job 19:23-27a2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17Luke 20:27-38 Mrs. Obrien: I just want to die,...
November 5, 2019

To Heal the Sin-Sick Soul

Twenty-first Sunday after PentecostTwenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Job 23:1-9, 16-17 or Amos 5:6-7, 10-15Hebrews 4:12-16Mark 10:17-31 “…most of us...
October 10, 2018

God’s Hometown

Seventh Sunday after PentecostFourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 OR Ezekiel 2:1-52 Corinthians 12:2-10Mark 6:1-13 This past...
July 3, 2018

Fear and Trembling

Third Sunday of Easter Acts 3:12-191 John 3:1-7Luke 24:36b-48 “On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the...
April 10, 2018

Desert Silence

Second Sunday After EpiphanySecond Sunday of Ordinary Time1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20)1 Corinthians 6:12-20John 1:43-51 OR John 1: 35-42 I woke...
January 9, 2018

The Conundrum of a Coin

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 45:1-7 OR Exodus 33:12-23 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 Matthew 22:15-22 Some...
October 19, 2017

The Weeds in Our Hearts

Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Genesis 20:10-19 Romans 8:12-25 Matthew 13:24-43 “You can add up the parts You won't have the...
July 19, 2017

Shown, Not Told

Seventh Sunday of Easter Acts 1:6-14 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 John 17:1-11 “Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary,...
May 23, 2017